{
  "creator": [
    "Kuiper, Nicholas A.",
    "Kuindersma, Jennifer"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2008-02-28"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Imagery and emotion have been identified as two of the main component  systems of autobiographical events.  It is not yet known, however,  whether a primary focus on either the self or others may have an impact  on these components.  To investigate this issue, half of the  participants in this study provide a real and made-up event description  about themselves, and half provide descriptions about a well-known  other.  In addition, all participants generated a made-up event  description about an unfamiliar other.  In accord with predictions  generated from a multiple-system model, real events received higher  visual detail, imagability, and positive emotion ratings than made-up  events.  This pattern was also evident for a novel measure of imagery,  in which real events were rated as being much more dynamic than made-up  events.  However, contrary to theoretical positions which postulate a  special enhanced role for self-referent information processing, the  self-descriptive events were not rated as being easier to imagine and  did not have more positive emotions or visual detail, than descriptive  events about well-known others.  This pattern suggests that efficient  cognitive schemata may be involved in the processing of information  about both the self and well-known others.  In contrast, descriptions of  an unfamiliar other received lower imagery and emotionality ratings,  suggesting that less well-differentiated cognitive structures are  involved in component processing for these individuals."
  ],
  "format": [
    "text/html"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/422",
    "10.5964/ejop.v4i1.422"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/422/422.html"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2008)",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Imagery",
    "Emotion",
    "Self-other",
    "Real made-up"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Imagery and Emotion Components of Event Descriptions about Self and Various Others"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}