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Negative Flashbulb Memories

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Summary “Flashbulb memories (FBM) are highly vivid and long-lasting memories for events that are emotionally significant and personally important” (as cited in Kraha and Boals, 2014). Most of the previous research on this phenomenon solely examined negative events and their capabilities to produce vivid negative flashbulb memories. Some of the previous research also focused on comparing similarities between positive and negative events. Although researchers have proved that flashbulb memories not only form from negative events but also neutral and positive ones, there haven 't been many studies on the development of positive flashbulb memories. The current study aims to “examine the phenomenological characteristics of positive flashbulb memories”
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