Loneliness and socioemotional memory

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-06-29 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12783

Tasuku Igarashi

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Abstract

Do chronically high‐lonely individuals exhibit specific memory biases when recalling past social episodes? We explored negative memory biases, focusing on the recall of unfavourable social experiences and social memory biases, emphasizing the recall of social experiences irrespective of emotional valence. We conducted a dictionary‐based semantic analysis of autobiographical episodes obtained from 4095 participants via four datasets. Participants recalled a positive, negative or emotionally neutral episode from their recent past. High‐lonely individuals predominantly exhibited a decline in recalling positive social episodes, providing partial support for negative memory biases. However, both high‐ and low‐lonely individuals were similarly inclined to recall negative social episodes. These results suggest that the primary issue among high‐lonely individuals is the limited recall of positive social experiences rather than the general negativity in memory biases or the hypersensitivity to general social memories.

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孤独与社会情感记忆

长期高度孤独的人在回忆过去的社交经历时是否会表现出特定的记忆偏差？我们探讨了消极记忆偏差和社会记忆偏差，消极记忆偏差侧重于回忆不利的社会经历，而社会记忆偏差则强调回忆社会经历，与情绪价值无关。我们通过四个数据集对 4095 名参与者的自传情节进行了基于词典的语义分析。参与者回忆了他们近期经历的积极、消极或情绪中性的事件。高度孤独的人在回忆积极的社会事件时主要表现出下降，这为消极记忆偏差提供了部分支持。然而，高孤独感者和低孤独感者同样倾向于回忆消极的社会事件。这些结果表明，高度孤独者的主要问题是对积极社会经历的回忆有限，而不是记忆偏差的普遍消极性或对一般社会记忆的过敏性。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

9.50

自引率

7.40%

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.