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Interpretation Training Influences Memory for Prior Interpretations

Anxiety is associated with memory biases when the initial interpretation of the event is taken into account. This experiment examined whether modification of interpretive bias retroactively affects memory for prior events and their initial interpretation. Before training, participants imagined thems...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Salemink, Elske, Hertel, Paula, Mackintosh, Bundy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Psychological Association 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21171760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020232
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Sumario:Anxiety is associated with memory biases when the initial interpretation of the event is taken into account. This experiment examined whether modification of interpretive bias retroactively affects memory for prior events and their initial interpretation. Before training, participants imagined themselves in emotionally ambiguous scenarios to which they provided endings that often revealed their interpretations. Then they were trained to resolve the ambiguity in other situations in a consistently positive (n = 37) or negative way (n = 38) before they tried to recall the initial scenarios and endings. Results indicated that memory for the endings was imbued with the emotional tone of the training, whereas memory for the scenarios was unaffected.