Remembering the bad times: Autobiographical memory fluency, specificity, and fading affect bias in adolescents at clinical risk of affective disorder
Alice Roe, Siobhan Gormley, Eleanor Stephens, Eleanor Mapleston, Tim Dalgleish · 2026
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Alice Roe and four colleagues test how teenagers at high risk of mood disorders remember their own past, in a 2026 study. Two hundred one adolescents at high risk and 117 at low risk, aged sixteen to eighteen, completed a task about good days and bad days. The task measured how easily positive and negative memories come to mind, how specific those memories are, and how fast their emotional charge fades.
Healthy-minded teenagers showed two protective tilts: good events came to mind more easily than bad ones, and the glow of positive memories faded more slowly than the sting of negative ones. At-risk teenagers showed weaker versions of both tilts and recalled more negative events. Memory specificity, by contrast, did not differ between groups. The authors say these recall biases may help explain how mood disorders take hold, and point to memory-based exercises as a possible early intervention.
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| CREATOR | Alice Roe, Siobhan Gormley, Eleanor Stephens, Eleanor Mapleston, Tim Dalgleish |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43984 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |