2009
DOI: 10.3758/mc.37.4.434
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Self-relevance and wishful thinking: Facilitation and distortion in source monitoring

Abstract: When making source attributions, people tend to attribute desirable statements to reliable sources and undesirable statements to unreliable sources, a phenomenon known as the wishful thinking effect (Gordon, Franklin, & Beck, 2005). In the present study, we examined the influence of wishful thinking on source monitoring for self-relevant information. On one hand, wishful thinking is expected, because self-relevant desires are presumably strong. However, self-relevance is known to confer a memory advantage and … Show more

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“…According to the source-monitoring framework (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993), memories are judgments about our subjective experience during remembering that may reflect source misattributions contaminated by information from other events or from prior schemas and motives. For example, adults misremember past events based on desired outcomes (Barber, Gordon, & Franklin, 2009; Gordon, Franklin, & Beck, 2005), engage in choice-supportive memory distortion about past decisions (Mather, Shafir, & Johnson, 2000), and selectively recall positive information to regulate their mood (Mather & Carstensen, 2005) or maintain a desirable self-view (Sanitioso, Kunda, & Fong, 1990). However, relatively little work has been done on such motivational factors in children’s memories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the source-monitoring framework (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993), memories are judgments about our subjective experience during remembering that may reflect source misattributions contaminated by information from other events or from prior schemas and motives. For example, adults misremember past events based on desired outcomes (Barber, Gordon, & Franklin, 2009; Gordon, Franklin, & Beck, 2005), engage in choice-supportive memory distortion about past decisions (Mather, Shafir, & Johnson, 2000), and selectively recall positive information to regulate their mood (Mather & Carstensen, 2005) or maintain a desirable self-view (Sanitioso, Kunda, & Fong, 1990). However, relatively little work has been done on such motivational factors in children’s memories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of photos and videos in media sources reporting important local and world events can invite people to remember events in ways consistent with photos that happen to be included with the story, though do not necessarily illustrate facts of the event. Memory errors can be readily produced when people try to understand situations by filling in the gaps (M. K. Johnson et al, 1993) and by being motivated to believe that events happened a certain way (Barber, Gordon, & Franklin, 2009;Benney & Henkel, 2006). Here we see that photos boost the rates at which people draw conclusions and claim that inferred events actually occurred.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, information supporting desirable outcomes is perceived to be more credible than information supporting undesirable outcomes (Barber et al 2009;Gordon et al 2005). In this sense, anticipated project success may be biased by people's insufficient consideration of the impact or occurrence probability of risk.…”
Section: H1bmentioning
confidence: 99%