Memories of Yesterday's Emotions: Does the Valence of Experience Affect the Memory-Experience Gap?

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 885-891

  Miron Shatz, Talya ^a,b   Stone, Arthur ^c   Kahneman, Daniel ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

memory experience gap; negativity bias; peak end rule; recall; retrospective evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449120919     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017823     Document Type: Article

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