Concept information
Preferred term
fading affect bias
Definition
- A memory bias that occurs when people rate the emotional intensity of an event to be weaker when they remember it than when they experienced it. This bias is greater for negative than for positive events.
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- affect fading effect
- FAB effect
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Cason, H. (1932). The learning and retention of pleasant and unpleasant activities. Archives of Psychology, 134, 5–96.
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• Access: closed
- • Holmes, D. S. (1970). Differential change in affective intensity and the forgetting of unpleasant personal experiences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 15(3), 234–239. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029394
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Rollins, L., Gibbons, J. A., & Cloude, E. B. (2018). Affective change greater for unpleasant than pleasant events in autobiographical memory of children and adults: A retrospective study. Cognitive Development, 47, 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.03.002
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Walker, W. R., & Skowronski, J. J. (2009). The fading affect bias: But what the hell is it for? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(8), 1122–1136. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1614
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Walker, W. R., Vogl, R. J., & Thompson, C. P. (1997). Autobiographical memory: Unpleasantness fades faster than pleasantness over time. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11(5), 399–413. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199710)11:5<399::AID-ACP462>3.0.CO;2-E
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has study method(s)
In other languages
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French
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biais d'affaiblissement de l’affect
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biais d'émoussement de l'affect
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effet d'émoussement affectif
URI
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