W. Richard Walker

Life is Pleasant—and Memory Helps to Keep it that Way!

W. Richard Walker, John J. Skowronski, Charles P. Thompson · Review of General Psychology · 2003 · 616 citations

Quality Of Life, Social Psychology, Affective Neuroscience +23

Autobiographical memory: unpleasantness fades faster than pleasantness over time

W. Richard Walker, Rodney J. Vogl, Charles P. Thompson · Applied Cognitive Psychology · 1997 · 276 citations

Cognitive Science, Retention Intervals, Retention Interval +15

The Fading affect bias: But what the hell is it for?

W. Richard Walker, John J. Skowronski · Applied Cognitive Psychology · 2009 · 219 citations

Affective Variable, Social Psychology, Affective Neuroscience +23

Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory

Timothy D. Ritchie, John J. Skowronski, Sarah E. Wood et al. · Self and Identity · 2006 · 140 citations

Cognitive Science, Event Rehearsal, Emotion Regulation +13

On the emotions that accompany autobiographical memories: Dysphoria disrupts the fading affect bias

W. Richard Walker, John J. Skowronski, Jeffrey Gibbons et al. · Cognition & Emotion · 2003 · 131 citations

Affective Variable, Autobiographical Events, Social Psychology +17