Amemiya Yuri, Sekiguchi Takahiro
Tokyo Gakuygu University, Japan.
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 2006 Oct;77(4):351-9. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.77.351.
Involuntary recollection of autobiographical memories refers to memories of personal experiences that pop into consciousness with no preceding attempts at remembering. In a laboratory experiment, we examined the effect of emotional valence on the involuntary recollection of autobiographical memories. Participants evaluated the familiarity of four words referring to various events (cues for autobiographical recollection) and then reported whether they had unintentionally recalled past experiences during these evaluations. We manipulated the emotional valence (positive/negative) and specificity (specific/common) of the cue words. In the specific-event condition, cue words for positive events elicited more involuntary memories than those for negative events. In addition, the mean frequency of recollection was higher in the specific-event condition than that in the common-event condition. These results are consistent with studies that used diary methods, which showed a dominance of positive events in involuntary recollection of autobiographical memories.
自传体记忆的非自愿回忆是指个人经历的记忆在没有先前记忆尝试的情况下突然进入意识。在一项实验室实验中，我们研究了情绪效价对自传体记忆非自愿回忆的影响。参与者评估了四个指代各种事件的单词（自传体回忆的线索）的熟悉程度，然后报告在这些评估过程中他们是否无意中回忆起了过去的经历。我们操纵了线索词的情绪效价（积极/消极）和具体程度（具体/常见）。在具体事件条件下，积极事件的线索词比消极事件的线索词引发了更多的非自愿记忆。此外，具体事件条件下回忆的平均频率高于常见事件条件下的平均频率。这些结果与使用日记法的研究一致，日记法研究表明在自传体记忆的非自愿回忆中积极事件占主导地位。
