ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Exploring past and future fluency of temporal landmarks under reduced agency.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The day-of-the-week effect is resilient to routine change.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Large language models can segment narrative events similarly to humans.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- The "Naturalistic Free Recall" dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Update on "Emotion and autobiographical memory": 14 years of advances in understanding functions, constructions, and consequences.Physics of life reviews · 2024Review
- Overestimating the intensity of negative feelings in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and COVID-19 pandemic.Cognition & emotion · 2024Article
- Autobiographical memory in contact tracing: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans throughout 2020 to examine how memory is influenced by two prominent factors: surprise and emotion. Autobiographical memory for 2020 displayed a unique signature: There was a substantial bump in March, aligning with pandemic onset and lockdowns, consistent across three memory collections 1 y apart. We further investigated how emotion, using both immediate and retrieved measures, predicted the amount and content of autobiographical memory: Negative affect increased recall across all measures, whereas its more clinical indices, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, selectively increased nonepisodic recall. Finally, in a separate cohort, we found pandemic news to be better remembered, surprising, and negative, while lockdowns compressed remembered time. Our work connects laboratory findings to the real world and delineates the effects of acute versus clinical signatures of negative emotion on memory.
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