TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptive misbeliefs and false memories
AU - Sutton, John
N1 - Copyright 2009 Cambridge University Press. Article originally published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 32, Issue 6, pp. 535-536. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991488
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - McKay & Dennett (M&D) suggest that some positive illusions are adaptive. But there is a bidirectional link between memory and positive illusions: Biased autobiographical memories filter incoming information, and self-enhancing information is preferentially attended and used to update memory. Extending M&D's approach, I ask if certain false memories might be adaptive, defending a broad view of the psychosocial functions of remembering.
AB - McKay & Dennett (M&D) suggest that some positive illusions are adaptive. But there is a bidirectional link between memory and positive illusions: Biased autobiographical memories filter incoming information, and self-enhancing information is preferentially attended and used to update memory. Extending M&D's approach, I ask if certain false memories might be adaptive, defending a broad view of the psychosocial functions of remembering.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X09991488
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X09991488
M3 - Comment/opinion
AN - SCOPUS:77949601473
VL - 32
SP - 535
EP - 536
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
SN - 0140-525X
IS - 6
ER -