Why do traumatic experiences sometimes produce good memory (flashbulbs) and sometimes no memory (repression)?
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 30 October 1992
Elizabeth F. Loftus, Leah Kaufman
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Abstract
"The past is a foreign country … they do things differently there." So begins L. P. Hartley's classic book, The Go-Between (1953). In thinking about "flashbulb" memories, specifically about the match between their present character and the past experience that gave rise to them, it is tempting to ask a similarly phrased question: Did they do things differently there?
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Psychology