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Volume 155, Number 25 (June 19, 1999)

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Forgot to remember to forget

Emotional recollections of childhood sexual abuse may cause some people to forget they had prior, factual memories of the same incidents.

References:

Schooler, J.W. 1999. The forgot-it-all-along effect and other contributors to discovering memories of actual abuse. Meeting of the American Psychological Society. June. Denver.

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1993. Sudden recall. Science News 144(Sept. 18):184.

Sources:

Jonathan W. Schooler
University of Pittsburgh
635 Learning Research and Development Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 25, June 19, 1999, p. 395. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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