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
Subjects:	DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20610
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-206102019-12-10T14:51:45Z Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task. Chin, Yammie Shi Yun. Michael Donald Patterson School of Humanities and Social Sciences Home Team Academy - Behavioral Science Unit DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology 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 observers (n = 39) remembered more details about the event, without a significant increase in errors, than actors who made response choices from similar alternatives (n = 34), but not those who selected from dissimilar alternatives (n = 37). Control beliefs are not predictive of memory. While memory for central information is better than peripheral information in the free recall task, it is worse in the recognition task. The implications of these findings are discussed. Bachelor of Arts 2009-12-15T07:16:11Z 2009-12-15T07:16:11Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20610 en Nanyang Technological University 84 p. application/pdf
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description	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 observers (n = 39) remembered more details about the event, without a significant increase in errors, than actors who made response choices from similar alternatives (n = 34), but not those who selected from dissimilar alternatives (n = 37). Control beliefs are not predictive of memory. While memory for central information is better than peripheral information in the free recall task, it is worse in the recognition task. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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author_facet	Michael Donald Patterson Chin, Yammie Shi Yun.
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author	Chin, Yammie Shi Yun.
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title	Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
title_short	Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
title_full	Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
title_fullStr	Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
title_full_unstemmed	Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
title_sort	do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.
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Do observers have a better memory for a negative emotional event than actors? : the relationships between involvement level, information and memory task.

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