Future thinking about social targets: The influence of prediction outcome on memory

Frankenstein, Andrea N.; McCurdy, Matthew P.; Sklenar, Allison M.; Pandya, R. V. R.; Szpunar, Karl K.; Leshikar, Eric D.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104390

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“…In the present research, students displayed less gender bias favoring men in cognitive accessibility and accurate memory concerning a campus leadership role when it was called head compared to the masculine generic term master . While gender-related expectations and stereotypes can make gender incongruent information more accessible and produce relatively better memory for it under particular circumstances—when people notice a salient discrepancy, are motivated to resolve it, and have adequate processing resources to do so (Fiske & Neuberg, 1990; Hess, 2005)—our findings are consistent with a large body of evidence indicating that congruent information is typically more accessible and can be better remembered (Bayen et al, 2000; Frankenstein et al, 2020). This advantage for congruent information has been shown for memory of faces during impression formation (Cassidy et al, 2012; Eberhardt et al, 2003; Nash et al, 2010) as well as specifically for gender stereotypical information (Ellemers, 2018).…”

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“Master” of none: Institutional language change linked to reduced gender bias.

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LaFrance³

2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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confidence: 84%

“Master” of none: Institutional language change linked to reduced gender bias.

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LaFrance³

2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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“…Indeed, work in other domains suggests that memory for information about future events tend to be better remembered than information that does not involve future planning (Klein et al, 2010). This in turn is consistent with other work suggesting that people use the contents of memory in order to think about the future (Szpunar et al, 2007;Szpunar, 2010;Frankenstein et al, 2020). In the current study, it may be that better memory for highly plausible items, such as a red apple, may be useful for future planning, such as deciding when food is ready to be consumed.…”

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confidence: 83%

Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

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Due to the natural selection pressure, certain aspects of memory may have been selected to give humans a survival advantage. Research has demonstrated that processing information for survival relevance leads to better item memory (i.e., the content of information) compared to control conditions. The current study investigates the effects of survival processing on context memory (i.e., memory for peripheral episodic details) and item memory to better understand when the survival processing memory advantage emerges. In this study, participants studied pictures of objects in either a survival or moving (control) condition. Objects were presented in either a plausible color, for example, a red apple, or in an implausible color, such as a green pie. We chose this color plausibility manipulation because color is a detail that conveys information about the fitness (and other diagnostic information) about an item. After studying items, participants made item memory judgments (did you see this item before?) and two context memory judgments: color context (in which color did you see this item?) and source context (in which condition did you see this item?). Results indicated better item memory for materials processed in the survival relative to moving condition. Critically, for color context, there was a condition by plausibility interaction, where memory was best for plausibly colored items in the survival processing condition. There was no difference, however, in source context memory between the survival and moving conditions. These results suggest the survival processing memory advantage extends to contextual details that particularly reflect the survival utility of items such as color.

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“…Taken as a whole, the research on generation constraint and context memory suggests that constraint likely influences memory for some contextual details more than others, further highlighting the need for more research to identify the boundary conditions of generation constraint effects. Understanding how to improve memory is an important scientific goal (Frankenstein et al, 2020;Leach, McCurdy, Trumbo, Matzen, & Leshikar, 2018;Leshikar, Duarte, & Hertzog, 2012;Leshikar et al, 2017;Matzen, Trumbo, Leach, & Leshikar, 2015;Meyers, McCurdy, Leach, Thomas, & Leshikar, 2020), and this work adds to that endeavor.…”

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Examining the relationship between generation constraint and memory

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Self-generated information is often better remembered than read information (the generation effect). Recent research, however, has shown that generating information under fewer experimental constraints (i.e., fewer limitations on what can be generated) can increase the magnitude of the generation effect. This study systematically varied generation constraint to better understand the effects of constraint on memory. Participants encoded associated cue-target word pairs (above-below) on either the left or right side of a computer monitor. At encoding, generation constraint was manipulated by systematically varying the number of letters given to participants to generate the target word (i.e., above-below; option-choic_; bank-mon__; etc.). At retrieval, participants were given either a recognition, cued recall, or free recall test measuring both item (target word) and context memory (location on the computer monitor). Using mixed-effects logistic regression analyses to control for item-selection effects (e.g., participants producing idiosyncratic targets in some conditions relative to others), results indicated that generation constraint significantly influenced item, but not context (location) memory. The relationship between generation constraint and memory performance, however, differed by the type of memory test administered: Recognition data revealed a curvilinear relationship; cued recall showed a negative, linear relationship; and free recall showed no significant relationship. Overall, these findings provide more evidence that generation constraint has a strong yet complex effect on different aspects of memory, and further delineates some boundary conditions of the influence of generation constraint on memory.

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Future thinking about social targets: The influence of prediction outcome on memory

Cited by 26 publications

References 59 publications

“Master” of none: Institutional language change linked to reduced gender bias.

“Master” of none: Institutional language change linked to reduced gender bias.

Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

Examining the relationship between generation constraint and memory

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