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Wyer, Natalie A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8169-976X, Perfect, Timothy J. and Pahl, Sabine
(2010)
Temporal distance and person memory: Thinking about the future changes memory for the past.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36 (6).
pp. 805-816.
ISSN 0146-1672
Abstract
Psychological distance has been shown to influence how people construe an event such that greater distance produces high-level construal (characterized by global or holistic processing) and lesser distance produces low-level construal (characterized by detailed or feature-based processing). The present research tested the hypothesis that construal level has carryover effects on how information about an event is retrieved from memory. Two experiments manipulated temporal distance and found that greater distance (high-level construal) improves face recognition and increases retrieval of the abstract features of an event, whereas lesser distance (low-level construal) impairs face recognition and increases retrieval of the concrete details of an event. The findings have implications for transfer-inappropriate processing accounts of face recognition and event memory, and suggest potential applications in forensic settings.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | psychological distance,person memory,construal level |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2017 01:42 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63032 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0146167210370965 |
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