TY - CHAP
T1 - Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting, and situated forgetting
T2 - forgetting in context
AU - Harris, Celia B.
AU - Sutton, John
AU - Barnier, Amanda J.
N1 - Previously published in Harris, C. B., Sutton, J., & Barnier, A. J. (2010). Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting and situated forgetting: Forgetting in context. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), Forgetting (pp. 253-284). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851647
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter focuses on autobiographical memory, which relates to events and experiences in our personal past. Autobiographical memories are our recollections of specific episodes from the past. Research within different traditions and paradigms supports the view that certain kinds of memories are forgotten in apparently goal-directed ways. For instance, diary studies have suggested that whereas people are more likely to forget events about themselves that are negative rather than positive, they are more likely to forget events about others that are positive rather than negative. The retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) paradigm developed by Anderson, Bjork, and Bjork models the kind of forgetting that occurs unconsciously in response to competition between memories, by practising some memories at the expense of others. RIF is considered an automatic, inevitable consequence of practising one piece of information at the expense of another.
AB - This chapter focuses on autobiographical memory, which relates to events and experiences in our personal past. Autobiographical memories are our recollections of specific episodes from the past. Research within different traditions and paradigms supports the view that certain kinds of memories are forgotten in apparently goal-directed ways. For instance, diary studies have suggested that whereas people are more likely to forget events about themselves that are negative rather than positive, they are more likely to forget events about others that are positive rather than negative. The retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) paradigm developed by Anderson, Bjork, and Bjork models the kind of forgetting that occurs unconsciously in response to competition between memories, by practising some memories at the expense of others. RIF is considered an automatic, inevitable consequence of practising one piece of information at the expense of another.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109604367&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003106715
U2 - 10.4324/9781003106715-9
DO - 10.4324/9781003106715-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85109604367
SN - 9780367618254
SN - 9780367618247
T3 - Current issues in memory
SP - 144
EP - 178
BT - Current issues in memory
A2 - Rummel, Jan
PB - Taylor and Francis
CY - Abingdon, Oxon
ER -