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

• 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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...