Sticking together? Re-binding previous other-associated stimuli interferes with self-verification but not partner-verification.

Autor: Constable MD; Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Electronic address: merryn.constable@northumbria.ac.uk., Knoblich G; Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Hungary.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Acta psychologica [Acta Psychol (Amst)] 2020 Oct; Vol. 210, pp. 103167. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 25.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103167
Abstrakt: The self-prioritisation and we-prioritisation effects can be observed through faster responses to self-stimuli (self and group) than non-self-stimuli. It remains uncertain if we-prioritisation extends to individual members of one's own group. In light of recent work that implicates memory-based processes in identity-prioritisation effects, the present experiment was developed to determine whether a task-partner's identity relevant information also benefits from an enhanced representation, despite conflicting evidence of partner-prioritisation. To this end, pairs of participants were recruited to perform a joint task. Each partner was assigned a shape and a stranger was also assigned a shape. Participants then completed a shape-to-label matching task where one participant responded if a shape and a label pair matched and the other responded if the shape and a label pair did not match. Halfway through the task the associated identities were switched such that the same shapes and labels were reassigned. Overall, a standard self-prioritisation effect was observed with match-responders making faster responses to self- over partner- and stranger-stimuli. After identities were remapped a decrement in performance was observed for self-trials relative to baseline self-responses. Conversely, responses were faster to partner- and stranger-stimuli relative to baseline performance for each stimulus type. Thus, no evidence was observed for an enhanced representation for task-partner-associated identities. However, an interaction between old and new memory traces for self- and other-associated identities does seem to interfere with self-retrieval and self-verification processes.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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