Choice-supportive source monitoring: Do our decisions seem better to us as we age?
Choice-supportive source monitoring: Do our decisions seem better to us as we age?
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DOI：
10.1037/0882-7974.15.4.596
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发表时间：
2000-12-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Johnson, MK
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作者：
Mather, M;Johnson, MK
参与者被给予几个2选项的选择，然后被要求回顾他们对自己的决定的感受，回顾他们的决定的细节，或者做一个无关的任务。当后来被要求将特征归因于先前的选项时，在每种情况下，老年人（64-83岁）将更多的积极特征归因于他们所选择的选项，而不是放弃的选项。在情感回顾条件下，年轻人（18-22岁）的归因与老年人一样具有选择支持性，但在其他条件下则较低。年龄差异是存在的，即使老年人和年轻人等同的来源识别和识别准确性。这项研究表明，随着年龄的增长，人们倾向于扭曲记忆，以支持他们所选择的选项。此外，它还表明，情感性地回顾选择会增加年轻人对选择支持性记忆的倾向。
Participants were given several 2-option choices and then asked to review how they felt about their decisions, to review the details of their decisions, or to do an unrelated task. When later asked to attribute features to the previous options, in each condition older adults (64-83 years) attributed significantly more positive and fewer negative features to their chosen options than to foregone options. Younger adults' (18-22 years) attributions were as choice-supportive as those of older adults in the affective review condition but were less so in the other conditions. The age difference was present even when older and younger adults were equated for source identification and recognition accuracy. This study suggests that as people age, their tendency to distort memory in favor of the options they chose increases. In addition, it suggests that affectively reviewing choices increases younger adults' tendency toward choice-supportive memory.