‘Tell me about the time you remember the best’: the effect of a remember best prompt on adults’ reports of a repeated emotionally stressful event

Exploring adults' dietary reporting accuracy using a repeated events framework

“…Indeed, we found that participants' reports were more accurate overall for the self‐ than the experimenter‐nominated day. This finding is consistent with past research indicating that adults and children can judge the quality of their memories of repeated events (see also Danby et al, 2017; Dilevski et al, 2022). Of course, our participants always completed their recall of the days in the same order: the self‐nominated day followed by the experimenter‐nominated day.…”

“…Ten days after the completion of the diary, participants were asked to recall what they had consumed during the diary period on two different days. First, participants were asked to nominate the day that they ‘remembered best’ to report on (see Dilevski et al, 2022; Sharman et al, 2022), as we wanted to maximise their recall. Second, participants were asked to report on an experimenter‐nominated second day, which was randomly chosen from the two remaining days from the diary period.…”

“…For intrusions, based on repeated-event research with adults showing that they make more internal than external intrusions (e.g., Dilevski et al, 2020Dilevski et al, , 2022, we predicted that our participants should also make more internal than external intrusions in their reports of dietary consumption for both the self-and experimenternominated days. Further, we explored whether there were any associations between participants' errors and another type of intrusion error, DRM intrusions.…”