The cognitive, emotional and social impacts of the September 11th attacks : group differences in memory for the reception context and its determinants
(2003) Constructive memory — 210-223, published
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- This study examines group differences in cognitive, emotional, and social responses to hearing the news of theSeptember 11th attacks. Although all groups were hypothesized to remember reception context immediately afterthe events, of interest was whether groups differed initially in predictors of long-term memory. One to 6 weeksafter 9/11/01, a questionnaire investigating memory for the reception context and a set of critical predictors wasdistributed to 3665 participants in Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Romania, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, and the US. US vs. non-US respondents showed large differences in memory for event-related facts andin self-rated importance of the news. Moderate-level differences between groups were found for backgroundknowledge, and small differences were observed for memory for the reception context, ratings of novelty,surprise, emotional feeling states and rehearsal. Within non-US groups, large differences were only found foremotional feeling states, whereas moderate differences were obtained for background knowledge and attitudestowards the US. Finally, non-US groups did not differ much in memory for the reception context, memory forevent-related facts, or ratings of novelty, surprise, importance, and rehearsal.
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Luminet, O., Curci, A., Marsh, E. J., Wessel, I., Constantin, T., & et al. (2003). The cognitive, emotional and social impacts of the September 11th attacks : group differences in memory for the reception context and its determinants. In B. Kokinov ; W. Hirst (ed.), Constructive memory (pp. 210-223). New Bulgarian University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/202064