Individual differences in cognitive control on self-referenced and other-referenced memory |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Speech and Language Technologies, Division of Technical Innovation and Development, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, PR China;2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;3. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;1. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, PR China;2. School of Psychology, Southwest University, No. 2 Tiansheng Road, BeiBei, Chongqing 400715, PR China;3. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK;4. University of Cambridge, The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK |
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| Abstract: | Self-referenced information is better recalled than other-referenced information – a mnemonic advantage known as the “self-reference effect” (SRE). By using a modified version of the “think/no-think” (TNT) paradigm (Anderson & Green, 2001), this study examined the effects of cognitive control on the SRE after the encoding stage. The results indicate that individual differences in personality traits and affective states strongly modulated the SRE after the TNT phase. For individuals high in negative cognitive style, an ironic enhancement of negative self-referenced memory produced a “maladaptive” SRE: better memory for negative self-referenced information than for negative other-referenced information, when trying to suppress that information. Before the TNT phase, instead, the SRE was characterized by the opposite bias. These results indicate that (1) the SRE is strongly affected by cognitive control after encoding, and (2) also in the non-clinical population, dysfunctional cognitive control can transform the SRE into a “maladaptive” memory bias. |
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| Keywords: | Self-reference effect Memory Self Think–no-think Negative cognitive style Self-face Emotion |
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