Investigating How People Who Self-harm Evaluate Web-Based Lived Experience Stories: Focus Group Study.

Background: The positive and negative effects of interacting with web-based content on mental health, and especially self-harm, are well documented. Lived experience stories are one such type of static web-based content, frequently published on health care or third-sector organization websites, as well as social media and blogs, as a form of support for those seeking help via the web.

Objective: This study aimed to increase understanding about how people who self-harm engage with and evaluate web-based lived experience stories.

The effect of dysphoria on the relationship between autobiographical memories and the self.

Two experiments investigated the bi-directional relationship between episodic autobiographical memories (ABMs) and semantic self-images in dysphoric and nondysphoric individuals. Participants in Experiment 1 generated positive and negative "I am" statements, which were then used to cue specific ABMs. Nondysphoric participants generated similar numbers of ABMs to positive and negative cues, suggesting both positive and negative self-images are supported by clusters of specific ABMs.

Simulation, false memories, and the planning of future events.

Three experiments investigated the relationship between future thinking and false memories. In Experiment 1, participants remembered familiar events (e.g.

Adaptive false memory: Imagining future scenarios increases false memories in the DRM paradigm.

Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a future scenario enhances memory for those words. The current study investigated the effect of future thinking on false memory using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. In Experiment 1, participants rated words from 6 DRM lists for relevance to a past or future event (with or without planning) or in terms of pleasantness.

A dysphoric's TALE: The relationship between the self-reported functions of autobiographical memory and symptoms of depression.

Autobiographical memory (AM) is believed to serve self, social and directive functions; however, little is known regarding how this triad of functions operates in depression. Using the Thinking About Life Experiences questionnaire [Bluck, S., & Alea, N.