Remembering to Forget: The Amnesic Effect of Daydreaming

Daydreaming mentally transports people to another place or time. Many daydreams are similar in content to the thoughts that people generate when they intentionally try to forget. Thus, thoughts like those generated during daydreaming can cause forgetting of previously encoded events. We conducted tw...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Psychological science 2010-07, Vol.21 (7), p.1036-1042
Hauptverfasser:	Delaney, Peter F., Sahakyan, Lili, Kelley, Colleen M., Zimmerman, Carissa A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Amnesia Analysis of Variance Autobiographical memory Autobiography Behavioural psychology Cognition Cognition & reasoning Control groups Correlation analysis Daydreams Dreams Fantasies Fantasy Forgetting Humans Memories Memory Memory - physiology Mental Recall - physiology Mind Mood Parents Psychological effects Recall Simulation Students - psychology Task Performance and Analysis Travel Vacations Words
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