Remembering old flames : How the past affects assessments of the present
Leslie F. Clark
Bok Engelsk 1993
| Utgitt | 1993
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| Omfang | 10 s.
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| Opplysninger | Abstract The impact of remembering a past love relationship on current well-being judgements was examined. The influence of recounting details was compared with that of drawing conclusions about these past interpersonal experiences. Participants wrote about falling in (positive event) or out of (negative event) love. They were asked either to describe how the event occurred or to explain why the event occurred. In addition, prior understanding regarding the past relationship was examined. Experiment I showed why-focus contrast and how-focus assimilation effects for judgements of current relationship satisfaction and general life satisfaction. The effets for general life satisfaction held only for understodd relationships. In Experiment 2, participants who initially described how they fell in love later listed more related relationship events and reported more positive mood than participants who described how they felle out of love. Prerequistes for contrast and assimilation effects are discussed.
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