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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > fading affect bias

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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.

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Synonym(s)

  • affect fading effect
  • FAB effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Cason, H. (1932). The learning and retention of pleasant and unpleasant activities. Archives of Psychology, 134, 5–96.

    • Document type: empirical study

    • 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

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-KX30Z9XX-C

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