2nd Edition
Flashbulb Memories New Challenges and Future Perspectives
Are Flashbulb memories special or ordinary memory formations? Are emotional, cognitive, or social factors highly relevant for the formation of Flashbulb memories? How can sociological, historical, and cultural issues help us to understand the process? What is the difference between Flashbulb memories, memories of traumatic experiences, and highly vivid personal memories? How can we provide a valid and reliable measure for Flashbulb memories?
This edition of Flashbulb Memories: New Challenges and Future Perspectives revisits these questions, considering significant new evidence and research in the field. It now includes additional chapters focusing on experimental investigations, and review studies on positive vs. negative Flashbulb memories.
Bringing together leading international researchers, the book presents significant progress in this area of research, which has remained divisive for the past 40 years. The discussion of Flashbulb memories also contributes to the understanding of the general functioning of autobiographical memory. It will provide essential reading for researchers in Flashbulb memories and will be of great interest to those in related areas such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, sociology, political sciences, and history, as well as clinicians dealing with those who have strong Flashbulb memories after personal traumatic events.
INTRODUCTION: HOW RESEARCH ON FLASHBULB MEMORIES DEVELOPED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS
Olivier Luminet, Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Antonietta Curci, University of Bari, Italy
CHAPTER 1: MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF FLASHBULB MEMORY
Antonietta Curci, University of Bari, Italy
CHAPTER 2: FLASHBULB MEMORY METHODS
Daniel B. Wright, Aspire University, Redwood City, CA
Marianna E. Carlucci, Loyola University Maryland, MA
CHAPTER 3: USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING APPROACHES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE FORMATION OF FLASHBULB MEMORIES
Olivier Luminet, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS)
CHAPTER 4: ORDINARY MEMORY PROCESSES SHAPE FLASHBULB MEMORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS: A REVIEW OF 40 YEARS OF RESEARCH
Jennifer M. Talarico, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
David C. Rubin, Duke University, Durham, NC
CHAPTER 5: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONSEQUENTIALITY
Jasmen Rice,
Karina Hamamouche,
John N. Bohannon III, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
CHAPTER 6: WHEN A FLASH IS CAUGHT IN A LAB! AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE INVESTIGATION OF FLASHBULB MEMORIES
Tiziana Lanciano,
Antonietta Curci, University of Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Sartori, University of Padua, Italy
CHAPTER 7: FLASHBULB, PERSONAL, AND EVENT MEMORIES IN CLINICAL POPULATIONS
Michelle J. Tat,
Carl A. Gold,
Andrew E. Budson, Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston, MA
CHAPTER 8: A COMPARISON OF FLASHBULB MEMORIES FOR POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EVENTS AND THEIR BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONS
Charles B. Stone,
Alexander C. V. Jay, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York City, USA and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, USA
CHAPTER 9: FLASHBULB MEMORIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
Dorthe Berntsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
CHAPTER 10: ALIGNING FLASHBULB AND COLLECTIVE MEMORIES
William Hirst,
Robert Meksin, New School for Social Research, New York City, NY
CHAPTER 11: FLASHBULB MEMORIES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORIES: PSYCHOSOCIAL PROCESSES RELATED TO RITUALS, EMOTIONS AND MEMORIES
Dario Páez,
Anderson Mathias, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
Stefano Cavalli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland
Eduardo Guichard, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
José Joaquín Pizarro,
Lander Méndez, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
Sofíán El-Astal, University of Al-Azhar, Gaza Strip, Palestine
CHAPTER 12: CULTURE IN FLASHBULB MEMORY
Qi Wang, Cornell University, USA
Cagla Aydin, Sabancı University, Turkey
CHAPTER 13: THE STUDY OF FLASHBULB MEMORIES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE WAY FORWARD
Lucy V. Justice, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Shazia Akhtar,
Martin A. Conway, University of London, UK
Biography
Olivier Luminet is Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and Professor in Psychology at the Université Catholique de Louvain and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium.
Antonietta Curci is Associate Professor at the University of Bari, Italy.
Praise for the previous edition:
"This book provides an updated overview of various issues examined in the FBM literature in the past and currently by a group of well-known and accomplished investigators in the field. Consequently, the book should serve as an important resource for future FBM researchers as it provides a foundation for previous concerns while exploring recent issues using new data."- Lauren Shapiro, North Dakota State University
