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Theory and preliminary evidence posit that the heightened object attachment characteristic of hoarding disorder may be partially explained by the experience of vivid, \u2018Proustian\u2019 memories related to objects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S135246582510115X_as2\">\n                    <jats:title>Aims:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The current study piloted a novel Proustian Memory Task to examine whether self-reported vividness of memories associated with cherished objects, mundane objects, and non-objects was associated with greater urge to save objects and greater hoarding symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S135246582510115X_as3\">\n                    <jats:title>Method:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Participants (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      =443) included a non-selected community sample recruited from the crowd-sourcing platform Prolific. Participants were asked to identify and describe a memory associated with their most cherished belonging, a mundane belonging, and a recent vacation (i.e. non-object control). Participants also reported their urge to save the identified objects and completed a self-report measure of hoarding symptoms.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S135246582510115X_as5\">\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Hoarding symptoms were not associated with vividness of memories of cherished objects, or with non-objects, but were associated with greater vividness of memories of mundane objects. Greater vividness of memories associated with objects was associated with a greater urge to save both cherished and mundane objects; however, this relationship was stronger for mundane compared with cherished objects. The relationship between memory vividness and urge to save objects was not impacted by hoarding symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S135246582510115X_as6\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Findings provide preliminary evidence that the experience of Proustian memories, particularly those related to mundane objects, may play a role in object attachment and hoarding symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s135246582510115x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]],"date-time":"2025-12-01T08:01:51Z","timestamp":1764576111000},"page":"1-13","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Proust effect and hoarding symptoms: relationships among memory vividness, object type, and urge to save"],"prefix":"10.1017","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5252-6803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lauren","family":"Milgram","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junjia","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Randy O.","family":"Frost","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Smith College"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth A.","family":"Offermann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Smith College"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kiara R.","family":"Timpano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/a0029966"},{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2020.08.013"},{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref43","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.comppsych.2020.152179"},{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1348\/014466607X270287"},{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jocrd.2019.100449"},{"key":"S135246582510115X_ref31","unstructured":"R Core Team (2023). 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