| Title |
The formation of flashbulb memories
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Memory & Cognition, May 1994
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| DOI | 10.3758/bf03200860 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Martin A. Conway, Stephen J Anderson, Steen F Larsen, C. M. Donnelly, M. A. McDaniel, A. G. R. McClelland, R. E. Rawles, R. H. Logie |
| Abstract |
A large group of subjects took part in a multinational test-retest study to investigate the formation of flashbulb (FB) memories for learning the news of the resignation of the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. Over 86% of the U.K. subjects were found to have FB memories nearly 1 year after the resignation; their memory reports were characterized by spontaneous, accurate, and full recall of event details, including minutiae. In contrast, less than 29% of the non-U.K. subjects had FB memories 1 year later; memory reports in this group were characterized by forgetting, reconstructive errors, and confabulatory responses. A causal analysis of secondary variables showed that the formation of FB memories was primarily associated with the level of importance attached to the event and level of affective response to the news. These findings lend some support to the study by R. Brown and Kulik (1977), who suggest that FB memories may constitute a class of autobiographical memories distinguished by some form of preferential encoding. |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Switzerland | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Croatia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 137 | 93% |
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| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 28% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 11% |
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 23 | 16% |
| Unknown | 24 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 76 | 52% |
| Neuroscience | 7 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 14% |
| Unknown | 29 | 20% |
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