SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2021
Emotional memories are (usually) harder to forget: A meta-analysis of the item-method directed forgetting literature.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Unexpected Events Resist Directed Forgetting.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2026Article
- Targeting memory of embedded positive verbal content indirectly modulates negative visual memory.iScience · 2025Article
- Pupil Fluctuations Signal Intentional Forgetting of Natural Scenes.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Preventing fixation: Evidence of item-method directed forgetting protecting against mental impasses in creative problem-solving.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Top-down instruction outweighs emotional salience: nocturnal sleep physiology indicates selective memory consolidation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Clinical, scientific and stakeholders' caring about identity perturbations.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Directed Forgetting and the Production Effect.Experimental psychology · 2024Article
- Drinking the waters of Lethe: Bringing voluntary choice into the study of voluntary forgetting.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
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- Maintenance suppression reduces the accessibility of visual information in working memory regardless of its normative valence.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- Emotional associative memory is disrupted by directed forgetting.Communications psychology · 2023Article
- The P300, the LPP, context updating, and memory: What is the functional significance of the emotion-related late positive potential?International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2023Review
- The Effect of One Night of Sleep on Mnemonic Discrimination of Emotional Information.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- (A)symmetries in Memory and Directed Forgetting of Political Stimuli.Experimental psychology · 2023Article
- Emotional scene remembering: A combination of disturbing and facilitating effects of emotion?Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Different ways to forget: Electrophysiological mechanisms underlying item-method directed forgetting of angry and neutral faces.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The current meta-analysis explored whether emotional memories are less susceptible to item-method directed forgetting than neutral memories. Basic analyses revealed superior memory for remember (R) than forget (F) items in both the neutral, M = 19.6%, CI
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