Flashbulb Memories

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.

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.

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, Sabanci 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