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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Memory distortions have significant real-world consequences.
  • The influence of social contexts, particularly competition, on memory remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how social competition affects true and false recognition.
  • To understand the underlying encoding and retrieval mechanisms influenced by competition.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a modified Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm.
  • Participants engaged in recognition tasks either in competition or independently.
  • Employed signal-detection analyses to assess memory sensitivity and response bias.

Main Results:

  • Competitive contexts led to lower levels of both true and false recognition.
  • Memory sensitivity for true recognition was equivalent across groups.
  • Decreased sensitivity for false recognition in the competition group suggests enhanced item-specific encoding.
  • A more conservative response bias was observed for both true and false recognition in the competition group.

Conclusions:

  • Social competition impacts memory through both encoding and decision-making processes.
  • Findings highlight the role of competitive social contexts in modulating memory accuracy and susceptibility to distortion.
  • Results suggest broader implications for understanding social influences on various memory functions.