The traditional username/password or PIN based authentication scheme, which still remains the most popular form of authentication, has been proved insecure, unmemorable and vulnerable to guessing, dictionary attack, key-logger, shoulder-surfing and social engineering. Based on this, a large number of new alternative methods have recently been proposed. However, most of them rely on users being ...

Recent studies have suggested that while both adults and children hold past-future hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past pleasurable lie future these are abandoned when quantity of pain or pleasure under consideration is greater than future. We examined whether such might affected by utility people assign experiential memories, since recollection events can itse...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Empirical interest in mental imagery in social anxiety disorder (SAD) has grown over the past years but still little is known about the specificity to SAD. The present study therefore examines negative autobiographical memories in participants with social anxiety disorder (SAD), compared to patients with panic disorder (PD), and healthy controls (HCs). METHODS A tota...

One city, three eras: Touring the monuments of Montgomery reveals ongoing struggles over collective memories past and visions future.

There is a positivity bias in autobiographical memory such that people are more likely to remember positive events from their past than they are to remember negative ones. Inhibition may promote this positivity bias by deterring negative memories from being retrieved. In our first experiment, we measured individual differences in retrieval-induced forgetting, a phenomenon believed to be the con...