TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1988//
TI  - Dating recent and historical events
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Kemp, Simon
SP  - 181
EP  - 188
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
N2  - Subjects were asked to date 28 'recent' public events that had occurred in the previous 7 years, and 28 'historical' events that occurred between 1765 and 1947. For both kinds of event, the age of older events was underestimated and that of more recent events overestimated, a result agreeing with previous research. Whether the events were well or poorly known, as rated by a separate sample of subjects, affected the dating error of historical but not recent events. The results suggest that both recent and historical events are dated by a rather abstract, constructive process, rather than by cues relating to the age of the memory or the time of its formation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.2350020304
ID  - ref1
ER  -