Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT): Extended version
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The AMT [Participants were instructed to retrieve a specific, personal memory in response to the cue word by typing it into the available text box via Qualtrics within 60 seconds. In Excel, the text box was an enlarged cell. A specific memory was defined as a memory of an event which lasted less than a day and occurred at a particular time and place. Examples of correct and incorrect responses were provided, and two practice trials were given at baseline before the task commenced. Participants proceeded to the test phase once they successfully completed the practice trials. In the test phase, participants were requested not to repeat memories. Additionally, participants were instructed to recall a memory from any time (free recall condition) for half of the cues, whereas memories were requested to be from more than one year ago (remote condition) for the other half. Remoteness condition was randomised in presentation order. Further, cue words were randomised between remoteness conditions and in presentation.After 60 seconds, the recall page automatically progressed in Qualtrics, whereas if completed via Excel, the researcher’s timer sounded to manually continue to the next sheet. On the subsequent page, participants were instructed to select answers to the following questions: i) Was the memory: positive, negative, neutral, or other? ii) From what perspective did you recall the memory: first-person, observer, blended, or no image? The blended option was described to include at least two of the perspective options. iii) When did the event occur? Participants were asked to provide a date of the memory’s event. Unlimited time was allowed to answer these questions.Following previous studies [