What I don't recall can't hurt me: information negativity versus information inconsistency as determinants of memorial self-defense
What I don't recall can't hurt me: information negativity versus information inconsistency as determinants of memorial self-defense
According to the mnemic neglect model, people are threatened by feedback that has unfavorable implications for their central self-aspects, and, as a result, they recall it poorly. What is the locus of such poor recall (i.e., mnemic neglect)? Experiment 1 examined the role of information inconsistency. If mnemic neglect is due to expectancy violation, then it will be observed for any referent (e.g., self, friend, glowingly-described other) controlling for expectancy positivity. Mnemic neglect was obtained for the self but not a friend or a glowingly-described other. Experiment 2 disentangled the roles of information inconsistency and information negativity. Participants with positive and those with negative self-concepts both manifested mnemic neglect. Negative, rather than inconsistent, feedback drives mnemic neglect.
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Green, Jeffrey D.
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2004
Sedikides, Constantine
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Green, Jeffrey D.
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Sedikides, Constantine and Green, Jeffrey D.
(2004)
What I don't recall can't hurt me: information negativity versus information inconsistency as determinants of memorial self-defense.
Social Cognition, 22 (1), .
(doi:10.1521/soco.22.1.4.30987).
Abstract
According to the mnemic neglect model, people are threatened by feedback that has unfavorable implications for their central self-aspects, and, as a result, they recall it poorly. What is the locus of such poor recall (i.e., mnemic neglect)? Experiment 1 examined the role of information inconsistency. If mnemic neglect is due to expectancy violation, then it will be observed for any referent (e.g., self, friend, glowingly-described other) controlling for expectancy positivity. Mnemic neglect was obtained for the self but not a friend or a glowingly-described other. Experiment 2 disentangled the roles of information inconsistency and information negativity. Participants with positive and those with negative self-concepts both manifested mnemic neglect. Negative, rather than inconsistent, feedback drives mnemic neglect.
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