Citation

Ferré Romeu P. Span. J. Psychol. 2006; 9(1): 52-60.

Affiliation

Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007-Tarragona, Spain. pilar.ferre@urv.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Complutense University of Madrid, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16673623

Abstract

In this study, I investigated students' memories of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, carried out by Al Qaeda terrorists against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Participants completed on two occasions (2 weeks and 8 months after the events took place) a memory questionnaire that included an assessment of the phenomenal richness of their memories. The results showed that the participants remembered very well the circumstances in which they first heard about the terrorist attacks, that they were very confident about this information, and that these memories were characterized by a high phenomenal richness. Over time, there was a decrease in all of these variables, but people's ratings of phenomenology and confidence were still very high.

Language: en