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attentional narrowing

attentional narrowing
Hypothesis that intense emotions or stress focus the subject's attention on the central details of an event. Thus these details are well remembered, while the memory of the event's peripheral details is reduced.
Easterbrook, J. A. (1959). The effect of emotion on cue utilization and the organization of behavior. Psychological Review, 66(3), 183-201. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047707
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