429 Citations
A Self-Reference Effect on Memory for People: We Are Particularly Good at Retrieving People Named Like Us
- PsychologyFront. Psychol.
- 2016
This experiment showed that such a self-reference bias also occurred even when the paired persons were close (partners or very good friends), a new naturalistic case of the self- reference effect.
Self effects in memory for person information.
- Psychology
- 1992
Subjects' memory for trait adjectives generated under relatively naturalistic conditions was investigated. Forty-eight female pairs (comprised of a subject and a confederate) participated in a study…
The effects of self-reference versus other reference on the recall of traits and nouns
- Psychology
- 1985
Although self-reference often facilitates recall, this effect is not always obtained, and the present experiments were designed to discover when self-reference produces better memory than other…
Self-memory biases in explicit and incidental encoding of trait adjectives
- PsychologyConsciousness and Cognition
- 2008
Self-referential processing in Alzheimer's disease: Two different ways of processing self-knowledge?
- PsychologyJournal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology
- 2013
There might exist two ways of processing self-referential knowledge in human cognition: one explicit and the other more implicit, as shown in AD patients' recollective experience.
Survival processing versus self-reference: A memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding
- Psychology
- 2017
Relative efficacy of different encoding structures and judgment topics in a cued-recall task
- Psychology
- 1985
Culture and the Incidental Self- and Mother-Reference Effect in Memory
- Psychology
- 2019
Co-presenting an item with self-relevant vs. other-relevant information at encoding can produce a self-memory advantage in the absence of any task demand to process the item’s self-relevancy. The…
Memory for details with self-referencing
- PsychologyMemory
- 2011
It is concluded that self-referencing not only enhances specific memory for both visual and verbal information, but can also disproportionately improve memory for specific internal source details.
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Self-reference and the encoding of personal information.
- PsychologyJournal of personality and social psychology
- 1977
Results indicate that self-reference is a rich and powerful encoding process that appears to function as a superordinate schema that is deeply involved in the processing, interpretation, and memory of personal information.
Self-schemata and processing information about the self.
- Psychology
- 1977
Attempts to organize, summarize, or explain one's own behavior in a particular domain result in the formation of cognitive structures about the self or selfschemata. Self-schemata are cognitive…
Depth of processing and the retention of words
- Psychology
- 1975
SUMMARY Ten experiments were designed to explore the levels of processing framework for human memory research proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972). The basic notions are that the episodic memory…
THE TROUBLE WITH LEVELS: A REEXAMINATION OF CRAIK AND LOCKHART'S FRAMEWORK FOR MEMORY RESEARCH
- Psychology
- 1978
Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns.
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of experimental psychology
- 1968
Likableness ratings of 555 personality-trait words.
- PsychologyJournal of personality and social psychology
- 1968