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Social intelligence and perspective-taking impact source memory. Higher social intelligence and anticipating a partner's story contributions worsen source monitoring accuracy.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Source monitoring accuracy decreases with increased source similarity.
  • Individual differences may influence the ability to distinguish between sources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of social intelligence and perspective-taking in source monitoring.
  • To examine how cooperative tasks affect source memory.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in a cooperative storytelling task.
  • Source monitoring performance was assessed subsequently.
  • A second study manipulated the ability to anticipate a partner's contributions.

Main Results:

  • Social intelligence negatively predicted source-monitoring performance.
  • The negative impact of social intelligence was mediated by increased source similarity.
  • Preventing anticipation of partner contributions eliminated the detrimental effect.

Conclusions:

  • Social intelligence and perspective-taking abilities are crucial for accurate source monitoring.
  • Collaborative tasks can increase source similarity, posing challenges for memory.
  • Interventions reducing reliance on anticipation may improve source memory in social contexts.