[en] Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories and imagined experiences were examined in checking- and non-checking-prone individuals. Participants were asked to retrieve a positive, a negative and a neutral memory, and to imagine a positive, a negative and a neutral experience. They were then requested to evaluate each event according to characteristics such as sensory and contextual details. The main results revealed that non-checking-prone participants reported more general vividness than checking-prone individuals for real events. In addition, non-checking-prone individuals reported more visual details and vividness for real than imagined experiences, while no difference between real and imagined events was found for checking-prone participants. These results suggest that checking-prone participants report poor memories of real events, which could in turn explain their difficulties distinguishing between real and imagined events. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Zermatten, Ariane
Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
D'Argembeau, Arnaud ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Ceschi, Grazia
Language :
English
Title :
Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories and imagined events in sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive checkers
Publication date :
2008
Journal title :
Applied Cognitive Psychology
ISSN :
0888-4080
eISSN :
1099-0720
Publisher :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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