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Other studies conducted in this area of research yielded findings indicating that women are able to produce more vivid details of events than men.

One such study had participants fill out questionnaires pertaining to the Senate hearings that confirmed Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice ( Morse, 1993 ).

The questionnaire contained four sections.

The first asked about vivid images associated with the weekend the hearing took place, and the participants were asked to rate the two most vivid images using 7-point bipolar scales.

The scale rated for " personal importance, unexpectedness of the recalled event, consequentiality of the event, vividness of the memory, and emotional intensity of the recalled event.

" The second section contained questions on autobiographical events not recently thought of and also used the 7-point scale format.

The third section inquired on the number of hours watching or listening to media coverage of the hearing, and the fourth asked about details of the memories that were reported.

94 respondents were surveyed, and of those there were 62 females, 31 males, and one person who did not indicate gender.

The study found that half of the individuals reported vivid memory images associated with the hearings.

64 % of women reported images as opposed to 33 % men.

77 % of women reported having had stimulated recall of an autobiographical event, while only 27 % of men indicated having experienced such recall.

Beyond the two rated memories given in the first section, women were more likely than men to report additional imagery ( 24 % of women and 6 % of men ).

There was no difference in the average amount of time spent consuming media on the hearing.