The Relation between Current Impressions and Memories of Self and Dating Partners
The Relation between Current Impressions and Memories of Self and Dating Partners
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自我和约会对象的当前印象和记忆之间的关系
DOI：
10.1177/0146167287132008
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
M. Ross
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作者：
C. McFarland;M. Ross
本研究的目的是检验人们印象中自然发生的变化与他们对自己、亲密他人及其关系的回忆之间的关联。据推测，(a) 重建过去主要包括将其描述为与现在相似或不同； (b)人们利用隐含的个人稳定性理论来做出这种判断； (c) 当这些理论意味着稳定性时，人们可能会高估过去和现在之间的相似性。在最初的会议中，受试者根据人们期望随着时间的推移保持稳定的维度对自己、约会对象以及他们的关系进行评分。两个月后，受试者对相同维度进行当前评估，并回忆起他们之前的评分。随着时间的推移，印象变得更有利的受试者回忆起比最初提供的更多积极评价，而印象变得不太有利的受试者则回忆起更多的负面评价。最后，受试者回忆起他们对伴侣行为的因果归因，认为比实际情况更符合他们当前的印象。一般来说，受试者高估了现在和过去之间的相似性。
The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between naturally occurring changes in people's impressions and their recollections of themselves, close others, and their relationship. It was reasoned that (a) reconstructing the past consists primarily of characterizing it as similar to, or different from, the present; (b) people employ implicit theories of personal stability to make this judgment; and (c) when these theories imply stability, people may overestimate the similarity between the past and the present. In an initial session, subjects rated themselves, their dating partner, and their relationship on dimensions that people expect to be stable over time. Two months later, subjects made current evaluations on the same dimensions and recalled their earlier ratings. Subjects whose impressions became more favorable over time recalled more positive evaluations than they had provided originally, and those whose impressions became less favorable recalled more negative evaluations. Finally, subjects recalled their causal attributions for their partner's behavior as being more consistent with their current impressions than was the case. In general, subjects overestimated the similarity between the present and the past.