Self-referential false associations: A self-enhanced constructive effect for verbal but not pictorial stimuli

False memory in aging resulting from self-referential processing.

OBJECTIVES Referencing the self is known to enhance accurate memory, but less is known about how the strategy affects false memory, particularly for highly self-relevant information. Because older adults are more prone to false memories, we tested whether self-referencing increased false memories with age. METHOD In 2 studies, older and younger adults rated adjectives for self-descriptiveness...

Clever and crude but not kind: narcissism, self-esteem, and the self-reference effect.

According to the agency model of narcissism (Campbell, Brunell, & Finkel, 2006) narcissists view themselves as high on agentic traits but low on communal traits. To test if this self-view extends to recall, two experiments examined the extent to which narcissism was associated with self-ratings and recall of agentic and communal traits that varied in valence. Across both experiments a trait des...

Transformations between Self-Referential Sets

Self-Referential Definition of Orthogonality

There has for longer been an interest in finding equivalent conditions which define inner product spaces, and the respective literature is considerable, see for instance Amir, which lists 350 such results. Here, in this tradition, an alternative definition of orthogonality is presented which does not make use of any inner product. This definition, in the spirit of the recently developed non-wel...

The Effect of Self-Referential Expectation on Emotional Face Processing.

The role of self-relevance has been somewhat neglected in static face processing paradigms but may be important in understanding how emotional faces impact on attention, cognition and affect. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of self-relevant primes on processing emotional composite faces. Sentence primes created an expectation of the emotion of the face before sad, hap...