On July 10, 2016 Portugal’s national football team won for the first time the UEFA European Championship. The event was marked by Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury on the first half, which forced him off the match, and by Eder’s goal in extra-time, on an exciting twist, that led to the victory. By beating France, the host country, and given the importance of football in Portugal, the win was filled with emotion, much celebrated and talked about. Two years after, what memories do Portuguese people retain about this event? How vivid are their memories and how intense are their emotions? In this paper, we examined this positive flashbulb memory and explored the factors that account for its retention years later.
Ribeiro, A., Marques, M., Roberto, M. S., & Raposo, A. (2023). Memory footprint: Predictors of flashbulb and event memories of the 2016 Euro Cup final. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1116747. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1116747
