memory

Remembering the Forest or the Trees: Effects of Psychological Distance on Memory Specificity

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Faculty Sponsor: Kyungmi Kim Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Psychological distance (i.e., the distance of a stimulus from a person’s direct experience) is suggested to alter the way people construe a stimulus, with a more detail-oriented, concrete construal for a psychologically proximal stimulus vs. a more global, abstract construal for a psychologically distal stimulus. … Read more

Do Self-Advantages in Memory vs. Attention Share Common Psychological Mechanisms?

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Faculty Sponsor: Kyungmi Kim Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/8795481927 Abstract: The incidental self-reference effect (iSRE) refers to a memory advantage for information co-presented with self-relevant information (e.g., one’s own name) in the absence of any task demand to evaluate the information’s self-relevance. The iSRE has been suggested to be underpinned by preferential attention to self-relevant vs. … Read more