Remembering successes and failures: rehearsal characteristics influence recollection and distancing

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2018

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Öner, Sezin
Gulgoz, Sami

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Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd

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We investigated the relationship between components of rumination brooding and reflection and autobiographical remembering by testing whether voluntary and involuntary rehearsal mediated rumination-related variation in the sensory-affective and metacognitive features of memory experience. We focused on achievement and failure memories as both are goal-related events yet they represent distinct experiences in terms of valence and functionality. For failure memories brooding was associated with intense recollection and reduced psychological distance. Brooding was related to enhanced distance of achievements indicating the disruptive effects of brooding on remembering. Although reflection attenuated the recollective experience for both achievement and failure memories it brought achievement memories to a subjective closer past. Structural equation modelling demonstrated the mediating role of involuntary remembering on the pattern of remembering experience.

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Autobiographical memory, Rumination, Goal memories, Voluntary rehearsal, Involuntary rehearsal

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Q4

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30

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2

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207

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221