Browsing by Author "Besken, Miri"
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The bizarreness effect and visual imagery : no impact of concurrent visuo-spatial distractor tasks indicates little role for visual imagery
(American Psychological Association, 2021-08-05)Ancient as well as modern writers have promoted the idea that bizarre images enhance memory. Research has documented bizarreness effects, with one standard technique finding that sentences describing unusual, implausible, ... -
Blessedly forgetful and blissfully unaware: a positivity bias in memory for (re)constructions of imagined past and future events
(Routledge, 2020)People frequently consider the alternatives of the events that can happen in the future and of the events that already happened in the past in everyday life. The current study investigates the effects of engaging in ... -
Cooking through perceptual disfluencies: The effects of auditory and visual distortions on predicted and actual memory performance
(Springer New York LLC, 2022-11-23)The current study investigated the joint contribution of visual and auditory disfuencies, or distortions, to actual and predicted memory performance with naturalistic, multi-modal materials through three experiments. In ... -
The role of positive relationship events in romantic attachment avoidance
(American Psychological Association, 2022-07-28)Motivated by the Attachment Security Enhancement Model (Arriaga et al., 2018), the present research investigated the associations between positive relationship experiences and romantic attachment avoidance in three dyadic ...
