Affect and Accuracy in Recall
Studies of 'Flashbulb' Memories

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
1. Introduction Eugene Winograd
Part I. Empirical Studies:
2. Phantom flashbulbs: false recollections of hearing the news about Challenger Ulric Neisser and Nicole Harsch
3. Potential flashbulbs: memories of ordinary news as the baseline Steen F. Larsen
4. Flashbulb memories: confidence, consistency, and quantity John Neil Bohannon III and Victoria Louise Symons
Part II. Developmental Studies:
5. Developmental issues in flashbulb memory research: children recall the Challenger event Amye Richelle Warren and Jeffery N. Swartwood
6. Preschool children's memories of personal circumstances: the fire alarm study David B. Pillemer
Part III. Emotion and Memory:
7. A proposed neurobiological basis for regulating memory storage for significant events Paul E. Gold
8. Remembering the details of emotional events Daniel Reisberg and Friderike Heuer
9. Do flashbulb memories differ from other types of emotional memories? Sven-Åke Christianson
10. Why do traumatic experiences sometimes produce good memory (flashbulbs) and sometimes no memory (repression)? Elizabeth F. Loftus and Leah Kaufman
Part IV. Theoretical Issues:
11. Special versus ordinary memory mechanisms in the genesis of flashbulb memories Michael McCloskey
12. Remembering personal circumstances: a functional analysis David B. Pillemer
13. Constraints on memory David C. Rubin
14. The theoretical and empirical status of the flashbulb memory hypothesis William F. Brewer
Author index
Subject index.

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