Tessa Clarkson, Harrison Albert Paff, Sheila Cunningham, Josephine Ross, Catherine Haslam, Ada Kritikos
The current study investigates the Self Reference Effect (SRE) with an ownership memory task across several age groups, providing the first age exploration of implicit ownership memory biases from adolescence to older adulthood (N = 159). Using a well-established ownership task (Cunningham et al., 2008; Sparks et al., 2016; Clarkson et al., 2022), participants were required to sort images of grocery items as belonging to themselves or to a fictious unnamed Other. After sorting and a brief distractor task, participants completed a surprise one-step source memory test...
April 29, 2024: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: QJEP