COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory.

IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1177/14747049221108929

Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Arnaud Witt, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The Behavioral Immune System (BIS, Schaller & Park, 2011) is a defense system whose function is to protect against pathogen exposure. Memory is an important component of this system (Fernandes et al., 2017). We investigated "contamination effects" in memory in relation to COVID-19. Photographs of everyday objects were shown to adults (N = 80) in the hands of either a healthy or a contagious person who had contracted SARS-CoV-2. "Contaminated objects" were recalled better than "non-contaminated objects" suggesting that a contamination effect in memory in humans is easily acquired in the absence of apparent visual cues of disease.

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COVID-19与记忆:一种新的记忆污染效应。

行为免疫系统(BIS, Schaller & Park, 2011)是一种防御系统，其功能是防止病原体暴露。记忆是这个系统的重要组成部分(Fernandes et al.， 2017)。我们研究了与COVID-19有关的记忆中的“污染效应”。研究人员向成年人(N = 80)展示了健康者或感染了SARS-CoV-2的传染性患者手中的日常物品的照片。“受污染的物体”比“未受污染的物体”更容易被回忆起来，这表明在没有明显的疾病视觉线索的情况下，人类记忆中的污染效应很容易获得。

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Evolutionary Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

6.70%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to foster communication between experimental and theoretical work on the one hand and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings across the whole range of the biological and human sciences on the other.