Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory

By Timothy D. Ritchie, John J. Skowronski, S. Wood, W. Walker, R. Vogl, J. Gibbons. 2006

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

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What We Regret Most Are Lost Opportunities: A Theory of Regret Intensity (2009, background): “On the basis of these findings, Roese and Summerville (2005) extrapolated that future opportunity is fundamental to regret, which is why outcomes for which corrective action is still possible should be most intensely regretted.”
Memory as a self-protective mechanism (2009, background): “Finally, although some autobiographical memory research has examined the role of memory importance (Ritchie et al., 2006) and compared self versus other memory (Skowronski, Betz, Thompson, & Shannon, 1991), no work in this tradition has investigated these variables simultaneously.”
Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults (2016, background): “However, we know from some studies (Ritchie et al., 2006; Thompson, Skowronski, Larsen, & Betz, 1996) that the self-relevant characteristics of the to-be-remembered stimuli are important to event recall.”
Willingness to Communicate in the Second Language: Understanding the Decision to Speak as a Volitional Process (2007, background): “Of particular relevance to the present discussion is the fading affect bias whereby negative emotions associated with events fade from memory faster than positive emotions associated with the same events (Ritchie et al., 2006).”
A Dynamic System Approach to Willingness to Communicate: Developing an Idiodynamic Method to Capture Rapidly Changing Affect (2011, background): “These memories have been found to decline in frequency over time (Crovitz and Schiffman 1974) and are more likely to be viewed through an overly positive lens, due to the fading affect bias (see Ritchie et al. 2006).”