This volume examines the phenomena--long questioned by memory researchers--of directed forgetting in humans and animals, and in contexts that are both basic and applied (social, forensic, and clinical). For all psychologists interested in memory.

Contents: Preface. C.M. MacLeod, Directed Forgetting. J.M. Golding, D.L. Long, There's More to Intentional Forgetting Than Directed Forgetting: An Integrative Review. E.L. Bjork, R.A. Bjork, M.C. Anderson, Varieties of Goal-Directed Forgetting. B.H. Basden, D.R. Basden, Directed Forgetting: A Contrast of Methods and Interpretations. S.W. Allen, J.R. Vokey, Directed Forgetting and Rehearsal on Direct and Indirect Memory Tests. J. Hauselt, An Illusion of Retrieval Inhibition: Directed Forgetting and Implicit Memory. H.M. Johnson, Disregarding Information in Text. D.S. Grant, Directed Forgetting in Pigeons. T.R. Zentall, K.L. Roper, D.H. Kaiser, L.M. Sherburne, A Critical Analysis of Directed-Forgetting Research in Animals. L.M. Isbell, H.L. Smith, R.S. Wyer, Jr., Consequences of Attempts to Disregard Social Information. Y. Schul, E. Bernstein, Suspicion and Discounting: Ignoring Invalid Information in an Uncertain Environment. G.V. Bodenhausen, C.N. Macrae, A.B. Milne, Disregarding Social Stereotypes: Implications for Memory, Judgment, and Behavior. J.M. Golding, A.L. Ellis, J. Hauselt, S.A. Sego, Instructions to Disregard Potentially Useful Unshared Information in a Group Context. M. Cloitre, Intentional Forgetting and Clinical Disorders. S.M. Kassin, C.A. Studebaker, Instructions to Disregard and the Jury: Curative and Paradoxical Effects. W.C. Thompson, J. Fuqua, "The Jury Will Disregard...": A Brief Guide to Inadmissible Evidence. R.A. Bjork, Intentional Forgetting in Perspective: Comments, Conjectures, and Some Directed Remembering.