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

Ritchie, Timothy D.; Skowronski, John J.; Wood, Sarah E.; Walker, W. Richard; Vogl, Rodney J.; Gibbons, Jeffrey A.

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“…However, the role of rehearsal as a mediator for the three-way interaction is very different in the current study than in the Gibbons et al study, because rehearsal showed a very similar pattern of effects on the FAB as did the interaction on the FAB in their study, whereas the opposite result was found in the current study. This finding extends the work of past researchers who have shown the importance of rehearsal for the FAB (Muir et al, 2014;Ritchie et al, 2006;Skowronski et al, 2004). This result also suggests that future research on the FAB should continue to examine the role of rehearsal as an explanatory mechanism for the effects of event type and individual difference variables on the FAB.…”

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“…Although this fact restricts the generalizability of these results, future research could rectify this problem by examining large, diverse samples to replicate the findings in the current experiment and extend them to broader populations. The final limitation pertains to the fact that we used a single measure to capture private and public rehearsals, whereas past research has shown that social and private rehearsals take different forms and produce different effects on the FAB (e.g., Ritchie et al, 2006). Although the current study and the Gibbons et al (2013) study showed that rehearsal ratings mediated the combined effect of event type and individual differences on the FAB, future research could obtain separate private and public rehearsals to assess their effect on the FAB across event type and related individual differences.…”

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confidence: 98%

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The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

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Consciousness and Cognition

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The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

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Consciousness and Cognition

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“…First, the FAB has been documented by numerous researchers, and via numerous methodologies, which have tested many parameters of the phenomenon (Gibbons et al, 2011;Holmes, 1970;Ritchie et al, 2006Ritchie et al, , 2009Walker et al, 1997). Regardless of design or measurement nuances, the data clearly identified the source of the FAB to be in ratings of current affect, not the ratings of initial affect (Landau & Gunter, 2009).…”

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“…We encourage researchers to employ different research methods to study the FAB; however, while sampling across different cultures it would be prudent to maintain methodological consistency. Memory, epub ahead of print published online:14th February 2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09658211.2014 Second, this phenomenon has been meaningfully linked to other psychological phenomena, such as current mood (Ritchie, 2006), different types of event rehearsal (Ritchie et al, 2006;, social discourse (Skowronski et al, 2004), flashbulb memory (Bohn & Berntsen, 2007), psychological closure (Beike & Crone, 2008;Ritchie et al, 2006), event imagery (Ritchie & Batteson, 2013), and dreaming (Ritchie & Skowronski, 2008).…”

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A pancultural perspective on the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory

Ritchie

Batteson

Bohn

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Memory

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The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) refers to the negative affect associated with autobiographical events fading faster than the positive affect associated with such events, a reliable and valid valence effect established by researchers in the U.S.A. The present study examined the idea that the FAB is a ubiquitous emotion regulating phenomenon in autobiographical memory that is present in people from a variety of cultures. We tested for evidence of the FAB by sampling more than 2,400 autobiographical event descriptions from 562 participants in 10 cultures around the world. Using variations on a common method, each sample evidenced a FAB: Positive affect faded slower than negative affect did. Results suggest that in tandem with local norms and customs, the FAB may foster recovery from negative life events and promote the retention of the positive emotions, within and outside of the U.S.A. We discuss these findings in the context of Keltner and Haidt's (1999) levels of analysis theory of emotion and culture. Memory, epub ahead of print published online:14th February 2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09658211.2014 3 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in A Pancultural Perspective on the Fading Affect Bias in Autobiographical MemoryThe human experience is replete with personal, emotional events. The emotions associated with life events can be positive or negative, fleeting or long lasting, disruptive or soothing. Emotions are constructed, in part, by biological and social mechanisms that moderate the affective experience and its expression. Much of the research on emotions has focused on immediate consequences for thought and behavior (Barrett, Niedenthal, & Winkielman, 2005;Damasio, 2003;Forgas, 2000). However, a growing body of research has begun to examine the fate of personal events' emotions over time ). This research suggests that many emotions evidence an overall pattern of affective fading. For many events, their associated emotions become less intense with the passage of time, some gradually, others abruptly (Gibbons, Lee, & Walker, 2011;Ritchie & Batteson, 2013). Importantly, this tendency for affective fading is biased such that negative emotions, on average, fade significantly faster than do positive emotions. This pattern of affect change is the Fading Affect Bias (FAB).The evidence for such a differential fading of positive and negative affect is robust and shows demonstratively that many adults evidence a FAB. Nonetheless, the majority of the early research on the FAB involved North American samples of university students, particularly those from the United States (Walker, Vogl, & Thompson, 1997). There remains the possibility that the FAB represents a cultural phenomenon, such that it may only be present in the relatively homogeneous samples thus far examined, within the U.S. To our knowledge, no prior work has provided data that enable us to compare the FAB cross-culturally' thus, the possibility of a culture-specific effect remains open. F...

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“…Just as experienced regret is more intense for events for which the self is to blame (Connolly & Zeelenberg, 2002), so too is the fading affect bias smaller for events that are perceived as self-caused (e.g., one's own actions are to blame; Ritchie et al, 2006). Just as life regrets of inaction are more persistent in memory for events that are perceived as open (Savitsky et al, 1997), so too is the fading affect bias smaller for events that are perceived as open (Ritchie et al, 2006).…”

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When experienced regret refuses to fade: Regrets of action and attempting to forget open life regrets

Beike

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2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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

Cited by 128 publications

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The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

A pancultural perspective on the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory

When experienced regret refuses to fade: Regrets of action and attempting to forget open life regrets

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