Before and after the manipulation, participants completed
the Autobiographical Memory Test, a standard measure of overgeneral memory.
Participants were then randomized to either a «decentring» question (Socratic questions designed to facilitate viewing moods within a wider perspective) or a control question condition, before completing
the Autobiographical Memory Test again.
Not exact matches
In a series of
tests to determine how false information can manipulate
memory formation, the researchers discovered that subjects with highly superior
autobiographical memory logged scores similar to those of a control group of subjects with average
memory.
Currently, it is
tested whether ANP and EP simulating healthy women have different psychophysiological reactions to neutral and aversive
autobiographical memories (Reinders et al, in progress).