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Emotional memories and how your life may depend upon them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

Tayler Eaton  and
Adam K. Anderson
Tayler Eaton
Affiliation:
Affect and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850. te82@cornell.edu aka47@cornell.edu http://aclab.human.cornell.edu/people/tayler/ http://aclab.human.cornell.edu/people/adam/
Adam K. Anderson
Affiliation:
Affect and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850. te82@cornell.edu aka47@cornell.edu http://aclab.human.cornell.edu/people/tayler/ http://aclab.human.cornell.edu/people/adam/
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Abstract

In this commentary, we discuss how one's internal body state and the appraisals an individual utilizes at encoding alter later episodic memory irrespective of social discourse. We suggest that the purpose of episodic memory is originally the preservation of the self, which may have been co-opted to navigating the social world.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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