Anne S Rasmussen

Biographic Data

ID7124498
NAMEAnne S Rasmussen
GIVEN NAMESAnne S
FAMILY NAMERasmussen
SIGNATURERASMUSSEN A S
AFFILIATIONSAarhus University
ORCID0000-0002-7853-9271
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • The memories that people would save or erase differ from their most positive and negative memories on function, emotion and correspondence with the life script

    Anne S Rasmussen, Cassandra G Burton-Wood et al.ARTICLEMemory2022

    Autobiographical remembering is a dynamic process in which narrators construct their life story from single memories. What is included in or deleted from the life story depends on many factors. Here, we examined the functions, emotions and correspondence with the life script for the memories that people desire to save or erase from their past. We asked people to generate either the two memories they were most likely to save and erase or the two m…

  • Negative memories serve functions in both adaptive and maladaptive ways

    Ryan Burnell, Anne S Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEMemory2020

    Autobiographical memories are said to serve at least three functions: they direct people's behaviour, inform their identity, and facilitate social bonding and communication. But much of the research on these three functions has not distinguished between memories that serve functions in adaptive ways from those that serve functions in maladaptive ways. Across two experiments, we asked subjects to provide either positive or negative memories. Then,…

  • Evidence That “Voluntary” Versus “Involuntary” Retrieval Is a Fluency-Based Attribution

    Open AccessMevagh Sanson, Brittany A Cardwell et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2019

    Our memories can come to mind either voluntarily—after we intended to retrieve them—or, involuntarily—without our intent. Studies often rely upon subjects themselves to classify their memories as voluntary or involuntary. But how well do subjects perform this task? There is reason to suspect that subjects sometimes base these classifications of intent on feelings of fluency—that is, ease of retrieval—leading them to misclassify their memories. In…

  • The functions of autobiographical memory

    Celia B Harris, Anne S Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEMemory2014

    Recent research in cognitive psychology has emphasised the uses, or functions, of autobiographical memory. Theoretical and empirical approaches have focused on a three-function model: autobiographical memory serves self, directive, and social functions. In the reminiscence literature other taxonomies and additional functions have been postulated. We examined the relationships between functions proposed by these literatures, in order to broaden co…

  • Ways of sampling voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories in daily life

    Open AccessAnne S Rasmussen, Kim Berg Johannessen et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

    Cognitive psychologists have often equaled retrieval of personal events with voluntary recall from autobiographical memory, but more recent research shows that autobiographical memories often come to mind involuntarily-that is, with no retrieval effort. Voluntary memories have been studied in numerous laboratory experiments in response to word-prompts, whereas involuntary memories primarily have been examined in an everyday living context, using …

  • The unpredictable past

    Open AccessAnne S Rasmussen, Dorthe BerntsenARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2011

    Involuntary autobiographical memories are spontaneously arising memories of personal events, whereas voluntary memories are retrieved strategically. Voluntary remembering has been studied in numerous experiments while involuntary remembering has been largely ignored. It is generally assumed that voluntary recall is the standard way of remembering, whereas involuntary recall is the exception. However, little is known about the actual frequency of …