Table 1.

Average phenomenological qualities of events generated by young and older adults.

A. Phenomenological Qualities of Recalled and Imagined Events by Event Condition
	Past-Imagine		Future-Imagine		Past-Recall
	Young	Old	Young	Old	Young	Old
Temporal distance (weeks)†	64.1 (30.4)	59.1 (37.4)	71.1 (34.4)	83.6 (38.7)	53.0 (33.6)	57.9 (55.5)
Detail†††	3.01 (.83)	3.56 (.68)	2.98 (.63)	3.57 (.68)	3.88 (.60)	4.25 (.74)
Emotional intensity†††	2.39 (.80)	3.22 (.67)	2.51 (.69)	3.36 (.75)*	3.17 (.84)	3.76 (.76)
Personal significance††	2.12 (.81)	3.04 (.75)*	2.24 (.67)	3.11 (.82)	2.71 (1.0)	3.42 (1.1)
Similarity to past events	2.16 (.54)	2.79 (.52)	2.16 (.74)	2.62 (.68)	n/a	n/a
Coinciding detail score	2.90 (.12)*	2.38 (.33)	2.92 (.11)*	2.37 (.24)	n/a	n/a

B. Phenomenological Qualities of Imagined Events by Load Condition.
	Load 1		Load 2		Load 3
	Young	Old	Young	Old	Young	Old
Temporal distance (weeks)	72.4 (25.2)	74.5 (36.4)	65.6 (33.1)	73.4 (44.2)	64.0 (35.1)	68.2 (29.4)
Detail††	3.15 (.73)	3.75 (.70)	2.97 (.67)	3.50 (.63)	2.85 (.73)	3.45 (.67)
Emotional intensity††	2.45 (.72)	3.44 (.72)*	2.57 (.76)	3.23 (.58)	2.31 (.75)	3.14 (.77)
Personal significance†	2.22 (.67)	3.10 (.80)*	2.17 (.88)	3.01 (.68)	2.05 (.69)	3.14 (.77)
Similarity to past events†††	2.56 (.62)	2.99 (.63)	2.07 (.63)	2.66 (.79)	1.84 (.71)	2.43 (.62)
Coinciding detail score†††	2.83 (.17)	2.66 (.28)	2.57 (.27)	2.27 (.35)	2.54 (.35)*	2.11 (.31)

Note. Standard deviations are given in parentheses.

^*Significant group difference (p ≤ .001, bonferroni corrected threshold), with the asterisk indicating the group with the higher score;

^†Main effect of condition (p ≤ .05);

^††Main effect of condition (p ≤ .01);

^†††Main effect of condition (p ≤ .001).