Most-memorable experiences: evidence for a link between implicit and explicit motives and social cognitive processes in everyday life

Two studies investigated the relationship of implicit and explicit motives to most-memorable experiences (MMEs). Participants completed implicit and explicit measures of task and social motives and recorded their MMEs for 60 days. In Study 1, implicit motives were expected to be related to affective

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