This text seeks to explain the contextual and processing variables that play a part in everyday memory, particularly for emotion-laden events. It discusses the mental structures and processes involved in the formation of memory representations and their later retrieval and interpretation.

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today. This book brings many of these researchers together in an attempt to unpack the contextual and processing variables that play a part in everyday memory, particularly for emotion-laden events. They discuss the mental structures and processes that operate in the formation of memory representations and their later retrieval and interpretation.