PSY 348 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Johnny Depp, Attribution Bias, Psy
12 Feb 2018
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Subjective importance as a cue for self-reference | ileana c. culcea and antonio l. freitas (2017) Builds on evidence that self-processed in specialized ways. Hyp = more important trait descriptor is, more likely participants would misremember it as having been presented in self-referential matter. Results = ppl use cues of importance when deciding if stim are self-referential: ppl do not rely solely on valence when making self-referential judgments, importance can bias self-referntial attributions. Stimuli related to self elicit specialized processing. Theory that ppl have egocentric biases influencing how they interpret new info and remember old info: individuals prone to overpercive selllves as target of others" attention and behavior. Better mem for info encoded in ref to self than in ref to another target or stim characteristics. Valence of event or item may be cue for discriminating whether info is self-referential. Desire relatively accurate self-referntial info: must rely on cues beyond valence, importance of an event/item/stim may be cue.
