Kosak, Ferdinand and Kuhbandner, Christof (2021) Reminiscing and the Passage of Years: Investigating the Role of Affective Autobiographical Memories in Passage of Time Judgments. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 12: 713264. ISSN 1664-1078,
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Previous research has shown that judgments of the experienced velocity of recent years passing by vary depending on the number of autobiographical memories being activated in the moment of judging. While a body of evidence shows affect to have an impact on both prospective and retrospective judgments on the experience of time for short periods, the effect of valence of memories on the experience of the passage of long intervals has not been examined yet. Thus, we asked 282 people to retrieve five either emotionally positive or negative memories from the last 5years before judging the subjectively experienced passage of time of these years. However, positive and negative events differ in some ways beyond valence, e.g., the ascribed impact on the participants' subsequent lives as well as the stability of ascribed affective intensity: The latter decreased over time for negative but not for positive memories while ascribed impact was markedly higher for positive memories. Results indicate no significant differences between the two conditions, even after controlling for the aforementioned differences. However, exploratory analyses show that participants rate time to have passed faster, the longer the activated memories dated back on average, a result that seems in line with contextual-change hypothesis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | REMEMBERED DURATION; GERMAN VERSION; LIFE; EXPERIENCE; PERCEPTION; AGE; GENDER; IMPACT; YOURE; FLIES; contextual change hypothesis; memory based approaches; passage of time judgments; subjective experience of time; storage size metaphor; autobiographical memory; fading affect bias |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie VI (Pädagogische Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Christof Kuhbandner |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2022 05:41 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2022 05:41 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45615 |
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