MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2514708
Jamal K Mansour, Michelle E Stepan, Shari R Berkowitz, Chad Peltier, Kimberly M Fenn
{"title":"An examination of the cognitive processes related to eyewitness lineup decisions.","authors":"Jamal K Mansour, Michelle E Stepan, Shari R Berkowitz, Chad Peltier, Kimberly M Fenn","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2514708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2514708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the magnitude of errors in the criminal justice system, it is vital to increase our capacity to predict when an eyewitness is likely to be accurate. The aim of this work was to examine cognitive processes important for correct lineup responses and to develop a theoretically-driven model of the relative strength of these processes and the interactions between them for predicting the likelihood of an accurate lineup decision. We used sleep to manipulate memory strength and assessed decision process objectively, using eye tracking, and subjectively, using a questionnaire. We then modelled the influence of memory strength and decision process on correct identifications in a target-present lineup (Experiment 1) and correct rejections in a target-absent lineup (Experiment 2). Our subjective measure of decision process was the only predictor of correct identifications. Memory strength and decision process predicted the likelihood of correct rejections, and did so largely independently from one another, but the subjective measure was the stronger predictor. Combining the data from both experiments suggested that decision processes mediate the relationship between memory strength and identification accuracy. These results can inform theories of how cognitive processes interact to influence lineup decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144690918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2534147
Ullrich Wagner, Gerald Echterhoff
{"title":"Audience tuning effects on communicators' memory: the role of the communicator's own initial judgment.","authors":"Ullrich Wagner, Gerald Echterhoff","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2534147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2534147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human memory is susceptible to various biases, often resulting from social interaction and communication. One example is the \"saying-is-believing\" (SIB) effect, where a communicator's memory is evaluatively biased by the previous tuning of messages about a target towards their audience's attitude, an effect explained by the communicator's shared reality creation with the audience. According to previous theorising (Echterhoff & Higgins, 2017), the communicators' initial, audience-independent judgments of a target are also likely to affect the evaluative tone of their subsequent memory. We investigated, for the first time, the role of the communicator's own judgment (OJ) as a possible moderator of the audience-congruent memory bias. Across three studies (total <i>N</i> = 1,070 participants), participants' OJs shaped the evaluative tone of their memory. However, there was no evidence that the audience-congruent recall bias depended on whether participants had initially formed a neutral or a valenced (positive or negative) own judgment of a target person. Hence, the audience-congruent memory bias persisted regardless of communicators' own initial judgments. We discuss implications for the study of memory and social influence. The findings are relevant for everyday life, given that people often talk about topics about which they have already formed their own judgment.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144698990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2536691
Chloé Metz, Nicola Savill
{"title":"Lexical-semantic support of verbal short-term memory under phonological demand: evidence for persistent imageability effects in immediate serial recall under rapid presentation and in dyslexic adults.","authors":"Chloé Metz, Nicola Savill","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2536691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2536691","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Verbal short-term memory (vSTM) draws on both phonological and lexical-semantic systems. This study examined whether vSTM support from semantic properties - specifically word imageability - varies with phonological ability and whether it endures rapid encoding conditions. Two auditory immediate serial recall (ISR) experiments tested recall for high - and low-imageability word lists in adults with and without developmental dyslexia. In Experiment 1, word imageability effects in standard presentation ISR were robust and equivalent across groups, despite the context of lower nonword recall in dyslexic participants. Experiment 2 used speeded presentation to limit rehearsal and reduce strategic encoding. Imageability effects were still observed, and a moderate association emerged between imageability benefit and nonword recall, which had not been observed with standard rate presentation. However, there remained no group-level differences in word recall. These findings indicate that imageability supports vSTM performance across individuals and task conditions. They do not provide strong evidence for compensatory mechanisms but rather highlight the general stability of semantic support in verbal memory across conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144682789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-20DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2536688
Catarina Bettencourt, Luís Pires, Manuela Vilar, Filipa Almeida, Sara Samarra, Raquel Duarte, Ana Allen Gomes, José Leitão
{"title":"Circadian dynamics of explicit memory performance in youth: exploring chronotype and synchrony effects.","authors":"Catarina Bettencourt, Luís Pires, Manuela Vilar, Filipa Almeida, Sara Samarra, Raquel Duarte, Ana Allen Gomes, José Leitão","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2536688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2536688","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive performance oscillates throughout the day depending on an individual's chronotype, with synchrony effects being reported in memory performance. To examine these effects in an ecologically-valid setting, 74 children (<i>M </i>= 8.39years, <i>SD </i>= .54; 34 morning-types, 40 evening-types) and 79 adolescents (<i>M </i>= 13.05years, <i>SD </i>= .39; 41 morning-types, 38 evening-types) were selected based on chronotype. Participants underwent neuropsychological assessments in school on the first or last hour of the school day, with testing times randomised. About half of each chronotype-group was assessed in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. The protocol included measures of explicit memory, namely verbal episodic memory, visuospatial working memory, and semantic memory. Synchrony effects were found in episodic verbal memory for morning-type adolescents and visuospatial working memory for evening-types of both age groups. Main effects of chronotype were found only for episodic verbal memory, with contrasting patterns: morning-type children outperformed evening-type children, whereas for adolescents the effect of chronotype favoured evening-types and was modulated by the synchrony effect. No interaction or main effects of chronotype and time-of-day were found for semantic memory. Our findings suggest developmental specificities in how circadian preferences impact memory and underscore the potential benefits of aligning schedules with individual chronobiological profiles to optimise learning outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144675267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2533253
Lillian Darke, Helen Paterson, Celine van Golde
{"title":"Gaslighting and memory: the effects of partner-led challenges on recall and self-perception.","authors":"Lillian Darke, Helen Paterson, Celine van Golde","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2533253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2533253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The global introduction of coercive control laws addressing patterns of psychological abuse in intimate partner violence has made it increasingly important to understand the cognitive impacts of tactics like gaslighting. Gaslighting directly targets cognitive processes involved in evaluating memories, potentially undermining victim-survivors' recollection, confidence, and self-trust, which are critical in forensic processes such as testimony. This study examined the effects of partner-led challenges on autobiographical memories within close relationships (i.e., friends and couples). It adapted memory conformity paradigms to capture gaslighting dynamics, where one partner pressures the other to adopt a different recollection of shared events. The study assessed how this pressure influences recall, confidence, self-perception, and wellbeing. It also explored how relationship factors (e.g., closeness, length) predict changes in recall. Results showed pressure from close partners increased misinformation acceptance, emphasising the role of interpersonal dynamics in memory conformity and the potential for abusive partners to manipulate recollections. While recall confidence decreased, self-esteem and mood showed positive trends, indicating complex interactions in processing memory challenges. These findings highlight the need for further research into psychological manipulation's effect on memory and self-trust in IPV, with focus on improving forensic responses and interventions for victim-survivors of psychological abuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144649891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2529284
Nora Mooren, Simone M de la Rie, Paul A Boelen
{"title":"Trauma memories with and without moral conflict: characteristics, centrality, and associations with posttraumatic stress.","authors":"Nora Mooren, Simone M de la Rie, Paul A Boelen","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2529284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2529284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The significance of moral conflicts that emerge during traumatic events and their influence on posttraumatic stress (PTS) and related symptoms are increasingly recognised. However, characteristics of the memories of these conflicts and how central these memories are within autobiographical memory remain largely unclear. In this study, students recalling trauma memories with a moral conflict were compared to students whose trauma memories did not include a moral conflict, in terms of the event-centrality of the trauma memory, memory characteristics, current emotional distress, and PTS. Additionally, we examined to what extent event-centrality was associated with PTS and memory characteristics. Participants recalling trauma memories with a moral conflict referred to these memories as more central, self-defining, and were more often recalled from observer perspective with greater self-distance compared to participants recalling trauma memories without moral conflict. The former group experienced more shame, guilt, disgust, and horror during the traumatic event and reported more PTS and current emotional distress. Event-centrality was positively correlated with PTS. This study highlights that event-centrality and memory characteristics play an important role in trauma memories with moral conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144619052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2525172
Hyunji Kim, Celia B Harris, Sarah J Barber
{"title":"Autobiographical memory specificity in younger and older adults as a function of cue type.","authors":"Hyunji Kim, Celia B Harris, Sarah J Barber","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2525172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2525172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autobiographical memory specificity commonly declines with age, but the role of emotion in modulating this deficit is unclear. Prior studies have typically used the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) paradigm and have asked younger and older participants to produce autobiographical memories in response to emotional and neutral cue words. However, these studies have often confounded cue valence with cue concreteness. To address this problem, in this study younger and older adults completed an AMT task that used negative, neutral, and positive cue words, which were either abstract or concrete. Results showed an age-related decline in autobiographical memory specificity, but the magnitude of this deficit depended upon cue type. For abstract cue words, older adults' autobiographical memory specificity was lower than that of younger adults for the negative and neutral cues, but there was no age difference in specificity for the positive cues, a finding that aligns with other reports of age-related positivity effects. In contrast, for concrete cue words, cue valence did not impact autobiographical memory specificity, with similar age differences in specificity for all three cue valences. These findings highlight the importance of considering characteristics of the AMT cues when evaluating autobiographical memory specificity for younger and older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144553898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076
Nicholas Barton, Michael Smyth
{"title":"Context-switching in short-form videos: What is the impact on prospective memory?","authors":"Nicholas Barton, Michael Smyth","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Short-form video domains, such as TikTok, may have a degenerate impact on Prospective Memory (PM) performance. This is due to the fast context-switching features that short-form videos present. This study examines the hypothesis that fast context-switching while watching short-form videos contributes to a cognitive decline. The pace of context-switching is the speed at which participants switch between videos. A between-groups design was used with three conditions that varied the pace of context-switching: (1) unlimited context-switching, (2) limited context-switching and (3) control (no short-form video stimulus). Participants' cognitive ability was measured pre and post-video viewing through a combined Lexical Decision (LD) and PM task. Participants (<i>N</i> = 45) were recruited using an experimental participation scheme. To test the hypothesis, linear mixed models were conducted, with LD and PM task response time and accuracy as the criterion and the three context-switching conditions as the predictors. Participants in the unlimited context-switching condition had significantly deteriorated PM performance post-interruption, whereas the limited switching condition had significantly improved PM performance post-interruption. Therefore, fast context-switching is identified as an underlying factor behind PM decline following short-form video use. This could inform the case for the regulation of media platforms with fast context-switching features.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144485038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2513604
Ezgi Bilgin, Qi Wang
{"title":"Are influencers more influential? Social endorsement and memory on social media.","authors":"Ezgi Bilgin, Qi Wang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2513604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2513604","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present research examined the mnemonic consequences of social endorsement in the form of followers and likes. In four studies, participants were presented with simulated social media posts associated with high and low levels of social endorsement. In Studies 1 and 2, participants read tweets about COVID-19 (Study 1; <i>N</i> = 199) and Facebook status updates about positive and negative personal events (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 159) posted by users with large or small numbers of followers. In Studies 3 and 4, participants read the posts (tweets in Study 3, <i>N</i> = 158; Facebook status updates in Study 4, <i>N</i> = 177) that received large or small numbers of likes. Across all studies, regardless of cultural background and social conformity tendency, social endorsement did not affect memory performance for posted information: Although participants rated profiles with greater social endorsement as more popular, trustworthy, likable, and attractive, they remembered the posted information associated with high and low levels of social endorsement similarly. Participants better remembered negative information (Studies 2 and 4) and information posted by more likable users (Studies 1 and 3). The findings suggest that social endorsement alone, while influencing the perception of profile owners, does not enhance the memorability of the associated information.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144476015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}