Gandolphe Marie-Charlotte, El Haj Mohamad
Department of Psychology, University of Lille, Lille, France.
Scand J Psychol. 2017 Jun;58(3):199-204. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12364. Epub 2017 Apr 25.
Flashbulb memories are vivid autobiographical memories of the circumstances where an individual first learns about emotionally significant public events. Our paper assesses whether these memories were triggered by the attacks of Friday 13 November 2015 in Paris. Two hundred and ninety-one participants answered a web-based questionnaire that assessed their memory of the circumstances in which they first learned of the attacks. The questionnaire also assessed vividness, rehearsal, emotion, surprise and novelty. The results showed substantial and vivid recall of the context in which the participants first learned of the event. This recall was associated with fair rehearsal, negative emotional valence, surprise, and novelty. Regression analysis showed that the flashbulb recall was predicted by negative emotion. Negative emotion seems to play a key role in the formation of flashbulb memories, at least those associated with the Paris attacks.
闪光灯记忆是个体首次得知具有情感意义的公共事件时的生动自传式记忆。我们的论文评估了这些记忆是否由2015年11月13日星期五在巴黎发生的袭击事件所触发。291名参与者回答了一份基于网络的问卷，该问卷评估了他们对首次得知袭击事件时的情境的记忆。问卷还评估了生动性、复述、情感、惊讶和新奇性。结果显示，参与者对首次得知该事件时的情境有大量且生动的回忆。这种回忆与适度的复述、负面情绪效价、惊讶和新奇性有关。回归分析表明，负面情绪可预测闪光灯记忆。负面情绪似乎在闪光灯记忆的形成中起关键作用，至少对于那些与巴黎袭击事件相关的记忆是如此。
