social Psychology
soheyla sohrabi; Javad Salehi; Tahere Elahi
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Abstract: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of creating credibility for the co-witness bylabeling, on the conformity of visual memory. In this research, the conformity of the recognition memory of 64participants was investigated based on the "pretest-posttest control group design". ...
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Abstract: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of creating credibility for the co-witness bylabeling, on the conformity of visual memory. In this research, the conformity of the recognition memory of 64participants was investigated based on the "pretest-posttest control group design". First, in the pre-test step, theactual level of visual recognition memory performance of the individual participants was measured using theInternational Affective Picture System (IAPS). Then, the participants of the experimental group participated inimage recognition tasks in the presence of an expert co-witness (researcher's confederate) who was validated bythe labeling him a police officer, and the participants of the control group in the presence of a non-expert co-witness (researcher's confederate). Data analysis using one way analysis of covariance showed that theparticipants of the experimental group conformed with the valid co-witness more than the control group (ηp2 =0.88, p < 0.005 and F = (58) 19.35). In conclusion, the results showed that providing information about theexpertise of a co-witness can have an effect on memory conformity with him. It turned out that the person'sassessment of the validity of the co-witness's memory plays the most important role. It seems that a person'sperception of the credibility of a co-witness affects the way he processes new information, which leads to anincrease in conformity due to wrong attributions in the source monitoring process. Social influence also plays arole in the credibility effect, though not in terms of giving credibility to memories, but in terms of how information isused.
Faezeh Poorgharib shahi shahrbabak; Javad Salehi; Tahereh Elahi
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.Aim: Memory conformity occurs when people's memory is affected by each other. It has also been shown that our memory is better for stimuli with emotional valence. People's empathy also affects the extent to which they are affected by emotional stimuli. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the ...
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.Aim: Memory conformity occurs when people's memory is affected by each other. It has also been shown that our memory is better for stimuli with emotional valence. People's empathy also affects the extent to which they are affected by emotional stimuli. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the emotional valence of remembered images on memory conformity and the role of empathy in this regard. Method: The statistical population was 400 female university students screened for empathy based on statistical power analysis, and the sample of 60 students were randomly selected from the upper and lower quartiles of empathy scores. The Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy (QMEE) and a recognition memory test using the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) was used to collect data. Results: The results of one-way repeated measures ANOVA and Split-Plot (mixed) analysis of variance (SPANOVA) for data analysis showed that memory conformity occurred in images with negative emotional valence less than in other levels of emotional valence (p<0.005). There was no significant difference between participants with high and low empathy in terms of memory conformity in images with different emotional valence. Conclusion: Although there was no difference in the degree of memory conformity between high and low empathy individuals, individuals experience memory conformity at all emotional valences. This conformity is greater in information without emotional capacity.
