Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.

The present study seeks to investigate whether the passive role (e.g. observer) typically played by laboratory eyewitnesses leads to an overestimation of memory for a negatively emotional event as compared to real-life eyewitnesses who are usually also actors in the event. Results showed that obse...

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Main Author: Chin, Yammie Shi Yun.
Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20610
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English