- Author
- Fivush, R. | Edwards, V. J. | Mennuti-Washburn, J.
- Title
- Narratives of 9/11: Relations Among Personal Involvement, Narrative Content and Memory of the Emotional Impact Over Time.
- Coporate
- Emory University, Atlanta, GA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
- Journal
- Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 9, 1099-1111, November/December 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | terrorists | terrorism | stress (psychology) | human behavior | time
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; 65 mostly white Emory University undergraduates of Judeo-Christian backgrounds; cognitive processing and emotion words; personal involvement and emotional impact; personal involvement and narrative content; mean recalled emotional reaction (and standard deviations) by personal involvement, time and gender (scores can range from 10=minimal stress to 50=high stress); mean number of words and mean percentages (and standard deviations) for cognitive processing, negative emotion and positive emotion words by level of personal involvement; mean percentage of negative emotion words by personal involvement and gender; mean percentage of words expressing anger, sadness and anxiety by day of writing; mean percentage of words expressing sadness by personal involvement and gender; narratives and memory of the emotional impact over time; correlations among variables