Memory for Real People

本研究将进行实证和理论研究 关于人的信息的记忆以及 社会类别。 第一组研究调查了 记忆在日常社会生活中的作用， 人民记忆的内容和组织， 熟人和公众人物，他们“满足”通过公共 媒体 两个主要问题激发了研究计划： 功能决定内存的内容和结构吗？ 做 情绪激发个体的记忆不同于 中立的，不会引起共鸣的人吗 第二组研究 发生在受控的实验室“熟悉”任务中， 旨在研究社会目标对受试者的影响” 他们在实验室里遇到的其他人的记忆 交互. 这些研究的主要动机是 检验先前实验室人员结果的一般性 在与真实的人的社会交往中的记忆研究。 一 第三组研究涉及一个单独的专题， 为新的社会群体创建连词类别（例如， 男护士、女机械师等）。 这里的指导问题是 关于发展一种理论来预测 哪两种“成分”类别将被合并， 合取范畴 首席研究员是众所周知的一个强大的， 多产的学者

This investigator will conduct empirical and theoretical research on memory for information about people and the construction of social categories. The first set of studies surveys the functions that memory serves in everyday social life and explores the contents and organization of peoples' memories for their acquaintances and for public figures they "meet" through public media. Two primary questions motivate the research plan: How does function determine memory contents and structure? Do memories of emotion-provoking individuals differ from those of neutral, non-evocative individuals? A second set of studies occurs in controlled, laboratory "get acquainted" tasks and is designed to study the effects of social goals on subjects" memories of other people they encounter in laboratory interactions. The primary motivation underlying these studies is to test the generality of results from previous laboratory person memory research in social interactions with actual people. A third set of studies is concerned with a separate topic, the creation of conjunction categories for novel social groups (e.g., male nurses, female mechanics, etc.). The guiding question here concerns the development of a theory to predict the manner in which two "ingredient" categories will be combined to yield a new conjunction category. The Principal Investigator is well known as a strong and productive scholar.