Tiziana Lanciano, Federica Alfeo, Antonietta Curci, Claudia Marin, Angela Maria D'Uggento, Diletta Decarolis, Sezin Öner, Kristine Anthony, Krystian Barzykowski, Miguel Bascón, Alec Benavides, Anne Cabildo, Manuel Luis de la Mata-Benítez, İrem Ergen, Katarzyna Filip, Alena Gofman, Steve M J Janssen, Zhao Kai-Bin, Ioanna Markostamou, Jose Antonio Matías-García, Veronika Nourkova, Sebastian Oleksiak, Andrés Santamaría, Karl Szpunar, Andrea Taylor, Lynn Ann Watson, Jin Zheng
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A cross-national study across eleven countries aimed to investigate FBM formation following the first COVID-19 case news in each country and test the effect of pandemic-related variables on FBM. Participants had detailed memories of the date and others present when they heard the news, and had partially detailed memories of the place, activity, and news source...
February 5, 2024: Memory