What Might Have Been: The Social Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking. Neal J. Roese and James M. Olson (Eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. No. of pages 408. ISBN 0-8058-1614-5. Price US $89.95 (hard cover).

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-4080
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199704)11:2<182::aid-acp456>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

Schacter concludes the book with a look at aging and memory, focussing specifically on the role of changes in the frontal lobes. Schacter argues that such changes account for elderly patients' specific difficulty with source memories: recalling the source of information they remember.

All in all, Schacter's book is quite an effective one, on several levels. Students interested in cognitive psychology or neuropsychology will definitely enjoy, and learn much, from reading this book. So will general readers. Research psychologists can benefit from seeing such a wellcrafted work that explains technical research in a fascinating and accessible way.