Hacklaender, Ryan P. M. and Schlueter, Helge and Abel, Magdalena (2024) Drinking the waters of Lethe: Bringing voluntary choice into the study of voluntary forgetting. MEMORY & COGNITION, 52. pp. 254-270. ISSN 0090-502X, 1532-5946
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The directed forgetting paradigm has long been used to test whether humans can voluntarily choose to forget learned information. However, to date, nearly all directed forgetting paradigms have involved a forced-choice paradigm, in which the participants are instructed about which learned information they should forget. While studies have repeatedly shown that this directed forgetting does lead to a decreased ability to later remember the information, it is still unclear whether these effects would be present if participants were allowed to, of their own accord, choose which information they wanted to forget. In two experiments here, we introduce a free-choice variety of the item method directed forgetting paradigm and show that directed forgetting effects are robust, both for instructed and voluntary forgetting. We discuss the implications of our findings for notions of voluntary forgetting and for the self-choice effect in memory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MEMORY; ITEM; RECALL; RECOGNITION; COSTS; TESTS; Directed forgetting; Free-choice; Item-method; Forgetting; Memory |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2024 05:52 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2025 09:37 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/59896 |
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