The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

By Daniel L. Schacter. 2001

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Functions of remembering and misremembering emotion (2009, positive): “In summary, two important functions of memory for emotion are to guide goal-directed action and to help individuals develop a coherent picture of their lives, rather than to serve as an indelible record of the past (Christianson & Engelberg, 1997; Conway & PleydellPearce, 2000; Schacter, 2001).”
A taxonomy of external and internal attention. (2011, neutral): “…on a cell phone during driving (Strayer & Johnston 2001), a boarding announcement at the airport while talking with a friend (Cherry 1953), or the name of an old acquaintance you chance to meet—only for it to pop into your mind after you part (for a review on memory failures, see Schacter 2001).”
Integrating Memories in the Human Brain: Hippocampal–Midbrain Encoding of Overlapping Events (2008, background): “The present form of generalization may be thought of as a type of false memory (Schacter, 2001b ), in that participants have the subjective sense of having already experienced the pairing of two elements that in fact had never been encountered together.”
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious (2007, background): “Anderson and Schooler, 2000; Schacter, 2001; Schooler and Hertwig, 2005.”
The Persistence and Transience of Memory. (2017, background): “However, they might assume that this is the case because of some capacity constraint and/or ﬂaws in processes underlying mnemonic persistence (Buonomano, 2011; Schacter, 2002).”
Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (2008, background): “But they also remember the gist of these events less well (Schacter, 2001: 193).”
SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND LEARNING (2014, background): “Schacter (2001) provides an overview of the evidence on memory limitations and, in particular, the second chapter explores research on the interface between attention and memory.”
False Memories: What the Hell are They For? (2009, background): “More than three decades of scientific research have documented that people make a variety of autobiographical memory errors, such as misremembering what they used to be like, misremembering details of momentous events, mistakenly believing they experienced events that they did not, and, in some case”
Language attrition and theories of forgetting: A cross-disciplinary review (2004, background): “Other recent explanations of forgetting, for example, “the seven sins of memory” discussed in Schacter (2001), will be subsumed under the more familiar theories and conceptions above.”
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory (2010, background): “The generally accepted view in psychology is therefore that experiences are recreated or reconstructed rather than retrieved through memory (Schacter 2001: 9).”
When False Recognition Meets Metacognition: The Distinctiveness Heuristic (2002, background): “As noted by Schacter et al. (1999) and Dodson and Schacter (2001), in a between-subjects design, distinctive information is perfectly predictive or diagnosticof prior study.”
Dissecting neural pathways for forgetting in Drosophila olfactory aversive memory (2015, neutral): “Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112(2):578–583.”
The psychological impact of intragenerational social class mobility (2011, background): “…to more recent experiences of current psychological distress, then the measure of prior depressive symptoms should operate to deflate the association between mobility and current psychological distress (see Ross, 1989; Schacter, 2001 for a review of literature on consistency bias in memory recall).”