The infamous among us: Enhanced reputational memory for uncooperative ingroup members

Incongruent autobiographical trustworthiness information affects face recognition: Empirical investigation of an adaptive memory for social exchanges

“…They suggest that this could be due to protective mechanisms against being exploited rather than a more general expectation violation effect. This suggestion is further supported by Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler (2016), who found that uncooperative individuals were better remembered if they were part of one's ingroup than an outgroup, due to expectations of cooperation among members of the former having been violated. Similarly, Süssenbach, Gollwitzer, Mieth, Buchner, & Bell (2016) report that individuals who were more sensitive to being victimised had an enhanced source memory for targets labelled as untrustworthy who then violated this with being labelled trustworthy subsequently (i.e.…”

“…However, by concentrating only on either participants' subjective expectancy of behaviour (Chang & Sanfey, 2009) or facial cues of trustworthiness Hechler et al, 2016;Suzuki & Suga, 2010), previous research is limited in its scope by ignoring autobiographical cues of trustworthiness an individual can convey. Social psychology research has shown that we can accurately assess psychological traits in others using various information (e.g.…”

Peer Review #2 of "Endogenous testosterone correlates with parochial altruism in relation to costly punishment in different social settings (v0.1)"

“…Manuscript to be reviewed related paradigms like the dictator game and demonstrated a memory advantage during recollection of the identity of unfair interaction partners, particularly for those from the ingroup (Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler 2016). The face memory task followed a short distraction period, in which participants filled out several questionnaires including the Trust and Reciprocity questionnaire (Dohmen et al 2008) and a demographic questionnaire.…”

“…Manuscript to be reviewed orientation using a ranking procedure through which we individually identified the favorite political party as well as the one most distant to the participant. Moreover, since memory for uncooperative group members was found to be enhanced in previous studies (Bell et al 2012;Bell andBuchner 2009, 2012;Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler 2016;Howard and Rothbart 1980), we assessed cued recall performance in a surprise face memory task (old-new decision) that used same number of new faces that were used to represent players in the UG. With this we wanted to assess whether there was indeed a memory advantage for ingroup members who showed schema-incongruent behavior in the UG, i.e., a norm violation through an unfair proposal, as suggested previously (e.g., Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler 2016).…”

“…Moreover, since memory for uncooperative group members was found to be enhanced in previous studies (Bell et al 2012;Bell andBuchner 2009, 2012;Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler 2016;Howard and Rothbart 1980), we assessed cued recall performance in a surprise face memory task (old-new decision) that used same number of new faces that were used to represent players in the UG. With this we wanted to assess whether there was indeed a memory advantage for ingroup members who showed schema-incongruent behavior in the UG, i.e., a norm violation through an unfair proposal, as suggested previously (e.g., Hechler, Neyer, and Kessler 2016). Moreover, we wanted to explore whether enhanced memory for ingroup norm violators might by associated with testosterone, since our previous neuroimaging study showed that there may be a link between testosterone and insular brain activation in this context (Reimers, Büchel & Diekhof, 2017).…”