Abstract:Involuntary autobiographical memories IAMs refer to memories of personal experiences that spontaneously come to mind. This paper examines the relationship between the fluency of associations in a word association task and the frequencies of IAMs. In Study 1, 197 undergraduate participants reported on IAMs elicited during a word association task and rated the associated words according to their retrieval spontaneity. Participants reported more IAMs when the associated word came to mind spontaneously. In Study 2… Show more
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