Abel, Magdalena and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2015) Selective memory retrieval in social groups: When silence is golden and when it is not. COGNITION, 140. pp. 40-48. ISSN 0010-0277, 1873-7838
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Previous research has shown that the selective remembering of a speaker and the resulting silences can cause forgetting of related, but unmentioned information by a listener (Cue, Koppel, 82 Hirst, 2007). Guided by more recent work that demonstrated both detrimental and beneficial effects of selective memory retrieval in individuals, the present research explored the effects of selective remembering in social groups when access to the encoding context at retrieval was maintained or impaired. In each of three experiments, selective retrieval by the speaker impaired recall of the listener when access to the encoding context was maintained, but it improved recall of the listener when context access was impaired. The results suggest the existence of two faces of selective memory retrieval in social groups, with a detrimental face when the encoding context is still active at retrieval and a beneficial face when it is not. The role of silence in social recall thus seems to be more complex than was indicated in prior work, and mnemonic silences on the part of a speaker can be "golden" for the memories of a listener under some circumstances, but not be "golden" under others. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 2 FACES; INTERFERENCE; MECHANISMS; CONTEXT; RECALL; MODEL; Episodic memory; Retrieval; Social recall; Forgetting; Context reactivation |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2019 14:20 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2019 14:20 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/5284 |
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