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      Memories of an emotional and a nonemotional event: effects of aging and delay interval.

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      Experimental aging research
      Informa UK Limited

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          The present study compared the memory of young and older adults for details pertaining to two public events of close temporal proximity but varying emotional import-the Columbia shuttle explosion and the 2003 Super Bowl. Participants responded to surveys sent within 2 weeks of these events and then again 7 months later, providing information about event-related details (i.e., of the events themselves) and personal details (i.e., of the reception event). Both age groups rated the shuttle tragedy as significantly more emotional than the Super Bowl, and although older adults often had poorer memory overall, both age groups remembered more about the shuttle than they did about the Super Bowl. Further, the age discrepancy (young adults remembering more than older adults) was less pronounced for the shuttle than for the Super Bowl. Thus, older adults' memories appear to benefit from the emotional salience of real-life events.

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          Journal
          Exp Aging Res
          Experimental aging research
          Informa UK Limited
          0361-073X
          0361-073X
          November 19 2005
          : 32
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ekensingwjh@harvard.edu
          Article
          N682604165426W12
          10.1080/01902140500325031
          16293567
          ee85a9d7-b84e-4cbf-8576-99a17ae03a93
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