Adaptive mating memory: Attractiveness and contextual effect on the remembering and misremembering of potential mates’ faces

• Main Author: TAY, Peter Kay Chai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: adaptive memory; facial memory; false memory; recall; sexual cognition; mate selection; Cognition and Perception; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/139; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1137&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Research on adaptive memory demonstrates that words and objects are remembered better if they are evaluated in relation to their survival or reproductive fitness value. Using the error management theory as a framework to elucidate memory biases emerging from adaptive costs and benefits, the present...