Characteristics of Personally Important Episodic Memories, Counterfactual Thoughts, and Future Projections across Age and Culture
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| Title: | Characteristics of Personally Important Episodic Memories, Counterfactual Thoughts, and Future Projections across Age and Culture |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Özbek, Müge (ORCID |
| Source: | Applied Cognitive Psychology. Sep-Oct 2020 34(5):1020-1033. |
| Availability: | Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Memory, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes, Phenomenology, Cultural Differences, Individual Differences |
| Geographic Terms: | Turkey, United States |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3681 |
| ISSN: | 0888-4080 |
| Abstract: | We have limited knowledge as to whether the phenomenological differences between episodic memories, counterfactuals, and future projections show the same pattern across age groups and diverse samples. Here we compared the characteristics of these mental events, reported by younger and older participants in a Turkish (Study 1) and in an American sample (Study 2). In both studies, memories contained more sensory-perceptual-spatial details, were easier to bring to mind, and more specific. Future projections were the most positive, whereas counterfactuals were the least emotionally intense. In Study 1, older participants rated the events more positively and experienced them with more perceptual detail, whereas younger participants reported the future to be more voluntarily rehearsed, important, and central. These age differences did not replicate in Study 2. Overall, phenomenological differences between the events are robust and replicate across diverse samples. However, age differences are more sensitive to cultural or individual differences. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2020 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1265935 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | We have limited knowledge as to whether the phenomenological differences between episodic memories, counterfactuals, and future projections show the same pattern across age groups and diverse samples. Here we compared the characteristics of these mental events, reported by younger and older participants in a Turkish (Study 1) and in an American sample (Study 2). In both studies, memories contained more sensory-perceptual-spatial details, were easier to bring to mind, and more specific. Future projections were the most positive, whereas counterfactuals were the least emotionally intense. In Study 1, older participants rated the events more positively and experienced them with more perceptual detail, whereas younger participants reported the future to be more voluntarily rehearsed, important, and central. These age differences did not replicate in Study 2. Overall, phenomenological differences between the events are robust and replicate across diverse samples. However, age differences are more sensitive to cultural or individual differences. |
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| ISSN: | 0888-4080 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3681 |
