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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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1.Directed Forgetting /Colin M. MacLeod --2.There's More to Intentional Forgetting Than Directed Forgetting: An Integrative Review /Jonathan M. Golding and Debra L. Long --3.Varieties of Goal-Directed Forgetting /Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, Robert A. Bjork and Michael C. Anderson --4.Directed Forgetting: A Contrast of Methods and Interpretations /Barbara H. Basden and David R. Basden --5.Directed Forgetting and Rehearsal on Direct and Indirect Memory Tests /Scott W. Allen and John R. Vokey --6.An Illusion of Retrieval Inhibition: Directed Forgetting and Implicit Memory /Jerry Hauselt --7.Disregarding Information in Text /Hollyn M. Johnson --8.Directed Forgetting in Pigeons /Douglas S. Grant --9.A Critical Analysis of Directed-Forgetting Research in Animals /Thomas R. Zentall, Karen L. Roper and Daren H. Kaiser --10.Consequences of Attempts to Disregard Social Information /Linda M. Isbell, Heidi L. Smith and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. --11.Suspicion and Discounting: Ignoring Invalid Information in an Uncertain Environment /Yaacov Schul and Eugene Bernstein --12.Disregarding Social Stereotypes: Implications for Memory, Judgment, and Behavior /Galen V. Bodenhausen, C. Neil Macrae and Alan B. Milne --13.Instructions to Disregard Potentially Useful Unshared Information in a Group Context /Jonathan M. Golding, Alan L. Ellis and Jerry Hauselt --14.Intentional Forgetting and Clinical Disorders /Marylene Cloitre --15.Instructions to Disregard and the Jury: Curative and Paradoxical Effects /Saul M. Kassin and Christina A. Studebaker --16."The Jury Will Disregard ... ": A Brief Guide to Inadmissible Evidence /William C. Thompson and Juliana Fuqua --17.Intentional Forgetting in Perspective: Comments, Conjectures, and Some Directed Remembering /Robert A. Bjork.
Research on intentional forgetting has been conducted in various forms and under various names for at least 30 years, but until now no effort has been made to present these different perspectives in one place. Comprising both review chapters and new empirical studies, this book brings together the many research paradigms investigating intentional forgetting, thereby highlighting the commonalities that link these seemingly disparate areas of research. It serves as a ""case study"" of one phenomenon in memory--the intention to forget or to modify memory. Why is research on intentional