Concept information
Preferred term
tunnel memory
Definition
- Term proposed by Safer et al. (1998) to account for the fact that the memory of negative emotional events is better for the central details than for the peripheral details.
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Berntsen, D. (2002). Tunnel memories for autobiographical events: Central details are remembered more frequently from shocking than from happy experiences. Memory & Cognition, 30(7), 1010–1020. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194319
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: open
- • Davis, D., Hogan, A. A., & Hart, D. J. (2024). Myths of trauma memory: On the oversimplification of effects of attention narrowing under stress. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1294730
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Safer, M. A., Christianson, S.-Å., Autry, M. W., & Österlund, K. (1998). Tunnel memory for traumatic events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12(2), 99–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199804)12:2<99::AID-ACP509>3.0.CO;2-7
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-BMLVXX1Z-3 - • Davis, D., Hogan, A. A., & Hart, D. J. (2024). Myths of trauma memory: On the oversimplification of effects of attention narrowing under stress. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1294730
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