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On the Flexibility of Social Source Memory: A Test of the Emotional Incongruity Hypothesis
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Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel; Kroneisen, Meike; Giang, Trang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
A popular hypothesis in evolutionary psychology posits that reciprocal altruism is supported by a cognitive module that helps cooperative individuals to detect and remember cheaters. Consistent with this hypothesis, a source memory advantage for faces of cheaters (better memory for the cheating context in which these faces were encountered) was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Altruism, Cooperation, Cheating
The Influence of Memory on Perception: It's Not What Things Look Like, It's What You Call Them
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Mitterer, Holger; Horschig, Jorn M.; Musseler, Jochen; Majid, Asifa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
World knowledge influences how we perceive the world. This study shows that this influence is at least partly mediated by declarative memory. Dutch and German participants categorized hues from a yellow-to-orange continuum on stimuli that were prototypically orange or yellow and that were also associated with these color labels. Both groups gave…
Descriptors: Memory, German, Foreign Countries, Visual Perception
The Development of Visuo-spatial Memory: How to Remember Location.
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Schumann-Hengsteler, Ruth – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Two studies investigated the effect of age on memory for visual and spatial information. Five to 10 year olds were asked to reconstruct a previously seen spatial arrangement of objects. The association between an object's identity and its location was weaker for younger than for older children. (LB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Foreign Countries, Memory