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Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: A comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory

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Koppel, Jonathan [Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark] Brown, Adam D. [Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA] Stone, Charles Beason [UCL] Coman, Alin [Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA] Hirst, William [Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA]

We examined and compared the predictors of autobiographical memory (AM) consistency and event memory accuracy across two publicly documented yet disparate public events: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th 2009, and the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549, off the coast of Manhattan, on January 15th 2009. We tracked autobiographical and event memories for both events, with assessments taking place within 21/2 weeks of both events (Survey 1), and again between 31/2 and 4 months after both events (Survey 2). In a series of stepwise regressions we found that the psychological variables of recalled emotional intensity and personal importance/centrality predicted AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the inauguration. Conversely, the rehearsal variables of covert rehearsal and media attention predicted, respectively, AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the plane landing. We conclude from these findings that different factors may underlie autobiographical and event memory for personally and culturally significant events (e.g., the inauguration), relative to noteworthy, yet less culturally significant, events (e.g., the plane landing). © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Memory" - Vol. 21, no. 7, p. 798-806 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-issn 1464-0686
issn 0965-8211
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Bibliographic reference Koppel, Jonathan ; Brown, Adam D. ; Stone, Charles Beason ; Coman, Alin ; Hirst, William. Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: A comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory. In: Memory, Vol. 21, no. 7, p. 798-806 (2013)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/160524