Influence of language and culture on retrieval-induced forgetting under the self-referential condition: Evidence from the Han and the Mosuo

Wang, Bin; Fu, Yue; Jijia, Zhang

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2019.00450

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“…It is interesting that our study found that people's reflected self-appraisals of different types of others are hierarchical, which is in line with the hierarchy of other-reference (Symons and Johnson, 1997;Wang et al, 2019). That is, the closer the relationship between people and others is, the deeper people's cognitive processing of how others perceive themselves will be and the better the memory performance of reflected self-appraisals will be.…”

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The Memory Effect of Reflected Self-Appraisals on Different Types of Others

Yue

Yang

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The development of one's self-concept unfolds within early interactions with intimate significant others for childhood and adolescence. Previous studies suggest that people define themselves in part through internalized perceptions of other people's beliefs about them, known as reflected self-appraisals. Even in adulthood, reflected self-appraisals still remain critically influential on direct self-appraisals, and the affect might depend on the different types of others. In the present study, for the first time, we extend the classic "other-reference" paradigm to the field of reflected self-appraisals in order to examine whether there is a difference in the memory performance of reflected self-appraisals on different types of others in an early adult sample. In the experiment, participants were told to encode personality trait words by judging how different types of others (romantic partners, friends, and classmates) think about the participants themselves. After a retention interval, they received a surprise recognition memory test. The results showed that the memory performance of romantic partners is significantly better than that of friends and classmates, indicating that the memory performance of reflected self-appraisals varies across the others with different levels of closeness. Specifically, the closer the relationship between people and others is, the better the memory performance of reflected self-appraisals will be. Meanwhile, the speed and the encoding deepness of the reflected self-appraisals vary among different genders, leading to the gender effect of recognition memory. This study might help deepen our understanding on the development of self-concept in adulthood.

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The Memory Effect of Reflected Self-Appraisals on Different Types of Others

Yue

Yang

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Previous studies have found that mothers are an integral part of self-concept in Chinese culture ( Wang et al., 2019 ; Zhu and Zhang, 2002 ; Zhu et al., 2015 ; Ding et al., 2020 ). However, the results of Experiments 1 and 2 both showed the empathy avoidance effect when the target was the participant's mother.…”

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“…In the UK, the recall scores of the mother reference group in the United Kingdom are lower than that of the self-reference group (Tulving, 1999). The research results from collectivism culture show that there was no significant difference between Chinese people's memory performance of maternal reference and self-reference (Zhu Ying and Zhang Li, 2001); maternal reference is the boundary condition for retrieval-induced forgetting (Yang and Zhu, 2004); in the Han and Mosuo cultures, self-reference and maternal reference are the key factors that cause retrieval-induced forgetting (Wang et al, 2019). In the same Eastern Indian culture, Verma et al (2021) found that mother-related information was processed equally well as self-related information.…”

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Cognitive cost of empathizing with mothers and strangers by Chinese college students

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Zhang

et al. 2022

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“…Research shows that “self-reference” is one of the boundary conditions of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF). In the Han Chinese culture, RIF was observed under the conditions of self-reference and maternal reference; while in Mosuo culture, mother’s sisters who are integrated in the self-concept of the Mosuo people are also important to such individuals ( Wang et al, 2019 ). To some extent, Mosuo people consider their mother and mother’s sisters as equally important, which may “dilute” the attachment devoted to the biological mother.…”

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The Relationship Between Children and Their Maternal Uncles: A Unique Parenting Mode in Mosuo Culture

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The relationship between children and their maternal uncles in contemporary Mosuo culture reveals a unique parenting mode in a matrilineal society. This study compared the responses of Mosuo and Han participants from questionnaires on the parent–child and maternal uncle–child relationship. More specifically, Study 1 used Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) to assess the reactions of the two groups to the relationship between children and their mothers, fathers, and maternal uncles. The results show that while Han people display a higher level of attachment toward their fathers than their maternal uncles, Mosuo people do not exhibit a significant difference in this aspect. Study 2 used a scenario-based method to compare how adults and teenagers perceive the rights and responsibilities of fathers/maternal uncles toward their children/nephews or nieces. The results show that Han adults attribute more rights and responsibilities to their own children than nephews/nieces, while their Mosuo counterparts have the reverse pattern and assign stronger responsibilities to their nephews/nieces than their own children. Both groups perceive the fathers to be the bearer of rights and responsibilities, although this perception was weaker among Mosuo. This paper concludes that in the Mosuo society, fathers have a relatively weak social role as a result of their unique matrilineal social structure.

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Influence of language and culture on retrieval-induced forgetting under the self-referential condition: Evidence from the Han and the Mosuo

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

The Memory Effect of Reflected Self-Appraisals on Different Types of Others

The Memory Effect of Reflected Self-Appraisals on Different Types of Others

Cognitive cost of empathizing with mothers and strangers by Chinese college students

The Relationship Between Children and Their Maternal Uncles: A Unique Parenting Mode in Mosuo Culture

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