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Article

Publication Date

11-29-2012

Journal / Book Title

PLOS One

Abstract

We investigated the effects of collective or individual self-construal priming on recall in a short-term memory (STM) task. We primed participants to either their individual or their collective self-construals or a neutral control condition. Participants then completed a STM retrieval task using either random or patterned digit strings. Findings revealed that priming an individual self-construal resulted in faster retrieval of information from STM for both stimulus types. These results indicate that individual self-accessibility improves retrieval speed of digits from STM, regardless of set configuration. More broadly, the present findings extend prior research by adding further evidence of the effects of self-construal priming on cognitive information processing.

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This article is Open Access and distributed under a Creative Commons 4.0 License.

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0050007

Published Citation

Macdonald, J. A., Sandry, J., & Rice, S. (2012). Self-construal priming affects speed of retrieval from short-term memory. PloS one, 7(11), e50007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050007

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