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Self-Serving Bias in Memories: Selectively Forgetting the Connection Between Negative Information and the Self

Abstract. Protecting one’s positive self-image from damage is a fundamental need of human beings. Forgetting is an effective strategy in this respect. Individuals show inferior recall of negative feedback about themselves but unimpaired recognition of self-related negative feedback. This discrepancy...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yanchi, Pan, Zhe, Li, Kai, Guo, Yongyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hogrefe Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6263140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000409
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description Abstract. Protecting one’s positive self-image from damage is a fundamental need of human beings. Forgetting is an effective strategy in this respect. Individuals show inferior recall of negative feedback about themselves but unimpaired recognition of self-related negative feedback. This discrepancy may imply that individuals retain negative information but forget that the information is associated with the self. In two experiments, participants judged whether two-character trait adjectives (positive or negative) described themselves or others. Subsequently, they completed old-new judgments (Experiment 2) and attribution tasks (Experiments 1 and 2). Neither old-new recognition nor source guessing bias was influenced by word valence. Participants’ source memory was worse in the negative self-referenced word processing condition than in the other conditions. These results suggest there is a self-serving bias in memory for the connection between valence information and the self.
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spelling pubmed-62631402018-11-30 Self-Serving Bias in Memories: Selectively Forgetting the Connection Between Negative Information and the Self Zhang, Yanchi Pan, Zhe Li, Kai Guo, Yongyu Exp Psychol Short Research Article Abstract. Protecting one’s positive self-image from damage is a fundamental need of human beings. Forgetting is an effective strategy in this respect. Individuals show inferior recall of negative feedback about themselves but unimpaired recognition of self-related negative feedback. This discrepancy may imply that individuals retain negative information but forget that the information is associated with the self. In two experiments, participants judged whether two-character trait adjectives (positive or negative) described themselves or others. Subsequently, they completed old-new judgments (Experiment 2) and attribution tasks (Experiments 1 and 2). Neither old-new recognition nor source guessing bias was influenced by word valence. Participants’ source memory was worse in the negative self-referenced word processing condition than in the other conditions. These results suggest there is a self-serving bias in memory for the connection between valence information and the self. Hogrefe Publishing 2018-08-31 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6263140/ /pubmed/30165808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000409 Text en © 2018 Hogrefe Publishing Distributed under the Hogrefe OpenMind License http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/a000001
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6263140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000409
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