Older participants (mean age ¼ 72.82 years) attempted to recall items from shopping lists while shopping in a supermarket and subsequently in their homes on recognition tests. They also attempted to identify local landmarks on a map. The recall occurred either together with their spouses or independently. Collaborative recall was compared to the pooled, nonredundant recall of spouses who completed the memory tasks alone (nominal groups). Nominal groups produced more hits on most measures and never fewer hits than did collaborative groups. However, collaborative groups consistently generated fewer memory errors than did nominal groups. In many everyday contexts, a tendency for collaboration to reduce false recall could be advantageous to older people. Signal detection analyses revealed that collaboration leads couples to require a higher level of certainty before they are willing to claim that they recognize an item. Finally, we examined the relation between expertise and recall in the shopping and landmark tasks.

The current study tested whether agreeableness, conscientiousness, and attachment styles would be associated with automatic accommodation in dating relationships. Accommodation refers to the tendency to respond to a romantic partner’s potentially destructive relationship act by inhibiting one’s own negative impulses and replacing them with a relatively deliberate, relationship enhancing act. Sixty‐five young adult participants from a Canadian university participated online. Participants selected either constructive or destructive responses to hypothetical negative behaviors their partner enacted either under time pressure or normally. Results showed that the difference in level of accommodation between participants high and low in agreeableness and avoidance became even greater under time pressure, suggesting that for some people, accommodation may in fact be more automatic.

To test the hypotheses that Type B individuals would engage in more preventive and less risk-related behaviors under high stress than Type As, 155 students were administered questionnaires pertaining to the TABP, daily hassles, and health behavior. As predicted, in six out of seven regression analyses, Type Bs engaged in more preventive, and fewer risk-related behaviors under high stress, than those who self-reported as Type A. Self-regulation mechanisms are proposed to help account for these effects.

Groups play a crucial role in everyday life and as a result are the target of individuals' sense-making processes and antisocial and prosocial conduct. Recent research has focused on causal attributions as an underlying social cognitive mechanism in perceivers' explanations of groups. Once in mind, however, little is understood about how these causal explanations influence a perceiver's social conduct toward groups following negative group events. We conducted three studies to test predictions derived from social conduct theory and previous research concerning perceivers' social cognition toward a specific group, namely, organizations. In Study 1, we examined the effect of locus and controllable attributions on a perceiver's social conduct toward an organization. Responding to critical incidents stimuli, in Study 2, workers recalled a personal negative event involving the organization they worked for to examine the interrelation among responsibility judgments, anger and sympathy, and antisocial and prosocial conduct. We conducted Study 3 to replicate and extend the findings of Study 2 by exploring a different type of group and perceiver. By and large, the findings confirmed hypotheses, which predicted that an individual perceiver's social conduct toward groups would be differentially affected by causal attributions, judgments of responsibility, and feelings of anger or sympathy toward the group.

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