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Dilan Çabuk-Çolak^1,2, Terry Eskenazi², Çağlar Akçay³

¹Department of Psychology, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, İstanbul, Turkey.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology

Background:

Individuals often encode information about partners in joint tasks, even if irrelevant.
Social encoding may be adaptive in fitness-relevant situations, such as survival.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if joint encoding effects are enhanced in survival-related tasks.
To explore the adaptive nature of social encoding in high-stakes scenarios.

Main Methods:

Two experiments involving university participants and confederates.
Utilized a survival processing paradigm with a joint encoding task.
Assessed recall of categorized words after participants imagined survival or moving scenarios in dyads or alone.

Main Results:

Participants recalled more items from their partner's category than their own in both scenarios.
This joint memory effect was significantly larger in the survival-related scenario.
Findings suggest enhanced encoding of partner's information in survival contexts.

Conclusions:

Survival-related tasks enhance the joint encoding of information with a partner.
This supports a "social information hoarding" strategy in adaptive situations.
Further research is needed to understand the underlying cognitive mechanisms.