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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotional Autobiographical Recollection

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Prospective memory, personality, and individual differences.

Bob Uttl¹, Carmela A White, Daniela Wong Gonzalez

¹Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University Calgary, AB, Canada.

Frontiers in Psychology

|March 26, 2013

Summary

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Prospective memory (ProM) shows weak links to personality traits like Openness and Conscientiousness. Cognitive factors, such as verbal intelligence, appear to influence ProM performance more significantly than personality.

Keywords:

big five individual differences meta-analysis personality prospective memory retrospective memory verbal intelligence

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Personality Psychology

Background:

Previous research on prospective memory (ProM) and personality has yielded inconsistent findings.
Variability in ProM assessment methods and research quality may contribute to these inconsistencies.

Purpose of the Study:

To clarify the relationship between prospective memory and personality.
To investigate the influence of verbal intelligence and personality on ProM.

Main Methods:

A meta-analysis of existing studies on ProM and personality.
An experimental study with 378 participants assessing ProM, personality, and verbal intelligence.

Main Results:

Meta-analysis revealed very weak correlations between ProM and Openness, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness.
Experimental study indicated ProM performance is related to verbal intelligence and personality, with personality's influence varying by ProM subdomain.

Conclusions:

Prospective memory performance is weakly associated with personality factors.
Cognitive factors, particularly verbal intelligence, demonstrate a stronger relationship with ProM performance.