Memory and Emotion (eBook)

Bob Uttl is Center of Excellence Professor of Psychology at Tamagawa University, Japan. Nobuo Ohta is Professor of Psychology at the Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Japan. Amy L. Siegenthaler is a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tokyo University of Social Welfare.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Part I. Introduction:.

1. Memory and Emotion from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Bob
Uttl (Tamagawa University), Amy L. Siegenthaler (Tokyo University
of Social Welfare), and Nobuo Ohta (Tokyo University of Social
Welfare).

Part II: Memory, Emotion, and Cognition:.

2. Memory for Emotional Episodes: The Strengths and Limits of
Arousal-Based Accounts: Daniel Reisberg (Reed College).

3. Emotional Valence, Discrete Emotions, and Memory: Linda J.
Levine (University of California, Irvine) and David A. Pizarro
(Cornell University).

4. Remembering emotional events: The relevance of memory for
associated emotions: Sven Å Christianson (Stockholm
University) and Elisabeth Engelberg (Stockholm School of
Economics).

5. Are We Frightened Because We Run Away? Some Evidence from
Metacognitive Feelings: Asher Koriat (University of Haifa).

Part III. Memory, Emotion, Aging, and the Brain:.

6. The Memory-Enhancing Effect of Emotion: Functional
Neuroimaging Evidence: Florin Dolcos (Duke University), Kevin S.
LaBar (Duke University), and Roberto Cabeza (Duke University).

7. Why Memories May Become More Positive as People Age: Mara
Mather (University of California, Santa Cruz).

8. Age-Related Changes in the Encoding and Retrieval and
Emotional and Non-Emotional Information: Bob Uttl (Tamagawa
University) and Peter Graf (University of British Columbia).

Part IV. Memory, Emotion, and Psychopathology:.

9. Anxiety and the Encoding of Emotional Information: Andrew
Mathews (University of London).

10. Memory, Emotion and Psychotherapy: Maximizing the Positive
Functions of Self-Defining Memories: Jefferson A. Singer
(Connecticut College).

11. Trauma and Memory: Normal versus Special Memory Mechanisms:
Gail S. Goodman (University of California, Davis) and Pedro M.
Paz-Alonso (University of the Basque Country).

12. Trauma and Memory Revisited: John F. Kihlstrom (University
of California, Berkeley).

Name Index.

Subject Index.