Involuntary memories of emotional events: do memories of traumas and extremely happy events differ?

By Dorthe Berntsen. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES): Development and Initial Validation of a New Measure (2010, unknown): “…is based on the “landmark perspective” of trauma, which asserts that highly emotional and distinctive events may become problematic if they remain highly salient and serve as a reference point for the organization of other more mundane events (Berntsen, 2001; Neisser, 1982; Rubin & Kozin, 1984).”
Reliving, emotions, and fragmentation in the autobiographical memories of veterans diagnosed with PTSD (2004, background): “…memories of traumatic events come with more of a sense of reliving than other memories of equal emotional intensity, though there is evidence that for involuntary memories, highly positive events are less frequent and have much more transient effects than traumatic memories (Berntsen, 2001).”
A longitudinal investigation of the reliability of memories for trauma and other emotional experiences (2004, background): “Research supporting the trauma superiority argument finds that memories for traumatic events are not recalled in fragments, but rather are continuously and clearly remembered (e.g. Berntsen, 2001; Pipe et al., 1997).”
Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. (2003, background): “In contrast, there is evidence that advancing age is accompanied by a shift away from negative information (e.g., Berntsen, 2001; Berntsen & Rubin, in press; Field, 1981; Mather, in press).”
The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. (2006, background): “However, both claims have found little support when subjected to more systematic experimental examination (e.g., Berntsen et al., 2003; Gray & Lombardo, 2001; Porter & Birt, 2001; Reviere & Bakeman, 2001; Rubin et al., 2004; but see Halligan, Michael, Clark, & Ehlers, 2003).”