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Retrieving autobiographical memories influences judgments about others: The role of metacognitive experiences

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Woltin, Karl-Andrew [UCL] Corneille, Olivier [UCL] Yzerbyt, Vincent [UCL]

This research investigates whether metacognitive experiences accompanying the retrieval of autobiographical memories influence judgments about others. Based on social projection research, we tested the hypothesis that ease-of-retrieval, affecting how the self is perceived, affects first impressions. In line with this prediction, Experiment 1 showed that participants asked to recall a few personal instances of assertive behavior (easy retrieval) judged an unknown person to be more assertive than participants recalling many instances (difficult retrieval). Experiment 2, targeting creativity, provided evidence for the retrieval-ease mechanism: The effect disappeared when ease-of-retrieval was discredited as informational source in a misattribution paradigm. Finally, Experiments 3 and 4 replicated this pattern for the same personality traits and demonstrated two boundary conditions: Participants' ease of autobiographical recalls affected judgments of in- but not outgroup members (Experiment 3), and judgments of unknown others were affected after autobiographical recall but not after recalling behaviors of someone else (Experiment 4).

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin" - Vol. 40, no. 4, p. 526-539 (2014)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Sage Publications, Inc. (Thousand Oaks)
issn 0146-1672
e-issn 1552-7433
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Bibliographic reference Woltin, Karl-Andrew ; Corneille, Olivier ; Yzerbyt, Vincent. Retrieving autobiographical memories influences judgments about others: The role of metacognitive experiences. In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 40, no. 4, p. 526-539 (2014)
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