Posted by Jost on June 19, 2006, at 22:38:55
In reply to Re: Interesting… but… » pseudoname, posted by curtm on June 19, 2006, at 21:52:06
One might want to distinguish what people foreground in telling a story from what they literally remember-- unless you use the word remember colloquially to mean the description when asked that question.
ie, if someone asks me what I remember, I'm going to tell them what's important about the situation, not literally what I remember. I might remember lots of stuff I wouldn't mention. It's question of what kind of narrative I'm interested in, not what I literally could regurgitate.
So they may have discovered that people with social phobia focus on, or are most affected by, the parts of a situation that involved their own imagined failings, unimportance, etc. Which would simply describe in other words what "social phobia" is-- rather than giving any causal or deeply explanatory, information.
Guess I'd have to know exactly what they did to know if I thought they had gotten at memory per se..
Jost.
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