Williams et al. (2007)

Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder.

Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 122-148

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Williams, J. M. G., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., Herman, D., Raes, F., Watkins, E., & Dalgleish, T. (2007). Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 122-148. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.122

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Autobiographical Memory Representational Structures

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Retrieval is a hierarchical search from general knowledge toward a single event; many emotionally disturbed people stop early and summarize categories of events (overgeneral memory) instead of recalling a specific episode