Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2008
Capstone Advisor
Leonard S. Newman
Honors Reader
Laura L. McIntyre
Capstone Major
Psychology
Capstone College
Arts and Science
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Social Sciences
Subject Categories
Other Psychology | Psychology | Social Psychology
Abstract
Mnemic neglect may be a form of attentional control which protects us from threatening criticism about our personalities. According to the model, positive feedback is recalled more easily than negative feedback when it is about the self. However, this is not the case when feedback is about other people. Mnemic neglect occurs even when people are told to simply imagine that the feedback is real. The reason for this is assumed to be that people spend relatively little time attending to or thinking about self-threatening feedback. The current study replicated the mnemic neglect effect but also directly measured how long people spent focusing on different kinds of feedback. A computer recorded the time spent reading behaviors and also administered mood measures to measure participants’ affect; however, neither of the measures yielded results that shed light on what mediates mnemic neglect.
Recommended Citation
Sapolsky, Maxwell S., "A Computer-based Study of Mnemic Neglect" (2008). Honors Capstone Projects - All. 540.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/540
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