Is traumatic memory special ? A comparison of traumatic memory characteristics with memory for other emotional life experiences

By S. Porter, A. Birt. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Reliving, emotions, and fragmentation in the autobiographical memories of veterans diagnosed with PTSD (2004, background): “Porter and Birt (2001) also found no differences in coherence between traumatic and positive memories as measured by independently judged scores of coherence.”
Emotion and vantage point in autobiographical (2006, background): “Comparing memories for more extreme emotional events among 306 undergraduates, Porter and Birt (2001) found that an observer perspective was more dominant for trauma memories than for memories of highly positive events.”
A longitudinal investigation of the reliability of memories for trauma and other emotional experiences (2004, methodology): “Porter and Birt (2001) asked 306 adults to give an account of their most traumatic experience and most positive emotional experience.”
Word Use in Emotional Narratives about Failed Romantic Relationships and Subsequent Mental Health (2005, result): “…some studies have found that trauma memories are less coherent (van der Kolk & Fisler, 1995), other studies have found no differences in memory coherency (Porter & Birt, 2001), while other studies have found that trauma memories are rated as more coherent (Rubin, Feldman, & Beckham, 2004).”
Memories of positive and negative emotional events (2005, background): “This is consistent with past research that suggests intensely negative events are remembered over long periods of time, and in much detail (e.g. Peterson & Whalen, 2001; Porter & Birt, 2001).”
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).”