Changing Current Appraisals of Mothers Leads to Changes in Childhood Memories of Love Toward Mothers

Patihis, Lawrence; Cruz, Cristobal S.; Herrera, Mario E.

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“…Likewise, when assessing memory for motivations, Galotti (1995) found that students' recollections of the criteria they had used to select their college were biased by their current beliefs about the criteria they ought to have used. This has been confirmed in experimental research by Patihis et al (2019), who manipulated current appraisals of mothers and found significant effects on memory of love felt in childhood towards mothers. Further evidence for the distinct processes involved in recalling emotions comes from individuals with HSAM, discussed above.…”

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Weak correlations among 13 episodic memory tasks related to the same public event

Murphy

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Levine

et al. 2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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If an individual demonstrates accurate autobiographical memory in one task, will they also demonstrate accurate autobiographical memory in related tasks? Over 18 months, 213 participants completed 13 episodic memory tasks related to the same national referendum. Tasks included false memories for fake news, flashbulb memories, factual memories, memory for emotions, hindsight bias, eyewitness accuracy, susceptibility to leading questions and memory blindness. Although moderate to strong correlations were found over time for the same episodic memory tasks, correlations among differing memory tasks were very weak. Our findings suggest that individuals vary in how well they remember different elements of a public event. We conclude that episodic memory is a multi‐faceted construct and researchers should be slow to generalise from one task to another, even when the two tasks refer to the same public event (e.g., we should not presume that individual differences in event memory will predict false memories for fake news).

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Weak correlations among 13 episodic memory tasks related to the same public event

Murphy

Loftus

Levine

et al. 2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…The results regarding the affective judgments are also limited, especially given the inconsistent patterns and sizes of the effects observed. It is plausible that interventions aimed at modifying current mood/affect can shape the way we think about the past (e.g., Patihis, Cruz, & Herrera, 2019), though given the replicability problems that have plagued the notion that modest manipulations can have substantial effects, it is appropriate to be cautious when interpreting our results. Another limitation pertains to the specific stimuli used.…”

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Framing the past (and future): Effects of generic photos on autobiographical judgments

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Westerman

2021

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Do the images we see every day influence how we remember our lives? Research on this matter often concerns how entire memories of events can be created or shaped through the use of doctored photographs of personal (Wade et al., Psychonomic bulletin & review, 9 (3), 597-603, 2002) and public events (Sacchi et al., Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21 (8), 1005-1022, 2007. Although this paradigm has yielded insights into false memory production, it may underestimate the extent to which photographs can bias or distort memory in a subtler manner (i.e., without the use of doctored photographs or suggestion). In Experiments 1 (N = 95) and 2 (N = 186) of the present study, we examined whether the mere presence of generic images, typical of stock photography, could influence aspects of our memories. Given the parallel between autobiographical remembering and forecasting (Berntsen & Bohn, Memory & Cognition, 38(3), 265-278, 2010), we also examined (Experiment 3: N=204) how such images would influence future autobiographical judgments. Specifically, three experiments investigated whether photographs would bias autobiographical judgments for either quantitative (e.g., How many movies have you seen in the past year?) or affective (e.g., How enjoyable do you think your next date will be?) aspects of events in everyday life. We found that photographs reliably influenced judgments related to quantitative aspects of autobiographical events. Moreover, though less robustly, there was an indication that these photos could bias our affective construal of such events as well. Overall, we conclude that the mere presence of generic photographs may exert an influence on the way we think about our lives to an extent previously underrecognized.

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“…Nevertheless, this does have a direct parallel to how we remember past feelings of love in everyday life and assess those memories. Indeed the very effect of current cognitions is one of our central interests that we are investigating in current research (Patihis, Cruz, & Herrera, 2018) and was one of the motivations for the development of the scale. Interesting future research could assess clinical populations, which may demonstrate lower mean scores on the memory of love subscales and therefore less negative skew compared to nonclinical samples.…”

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Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation

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We document the development of the Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire—for use in multiple areas of psychology. It is designed to measure current feelings of and memory of love towards a specific parent during important time periods in childhood. In all samples (total N = 1527), we consistently found high internal reliability. We report the basic psychometrics of the 28-item subscale version in both undergraduate and US nonclinical adult samples and identified 10-item and 4-item subscale versions. The Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire has eight subscales: assessing mother and father separately during first, sixth, and ninth grade, as well as current feelings. We found a pattern of correlations that one would expect between existing attachment scales and the Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire. A factor analysis demonstrated that Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire items capture something different from the factors in established attachment measures. We found that the order of the subscales can be presented in a fixed order (mother-first and chronologically) without large order effects. The Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire demonstrated a single factor within subscales, reliability, and validity. The Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire can be used in clinical, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology.

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Changing Current Appraisals of Mothers Leads to Changes in Childhood Memories of Love Toward Mothers

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Weak correlations among 13 episodic memory tasks related to the same public event

Weak correlations among 13 episodic memory tasks related to the same public event

Framing the past (and future): Effects of generic photos on autobiographical judgments

Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation

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