Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Self-reference and the encoding of personal information

T B Rogers, N A Kuiper, W S Kirker

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
    |September 1, 1977
    PubMed
    Summary
    This summary is machine-generated.

    Related Concept Videos

    You might also read

    Related Articles

    Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

    Sort by
    Same author

    Angiotensin II signal transduction pathways in the cardiovascular system.

    Trends in cardiovascular medicine·2011
    Same author

    Prognostic factors in follicular lymphoma: a single institution study.

    Oncology reports·2008
    Same author

    Inhibition of protein phosphatase-1 is linked to phosphorylation of p53 and apoptosis.

    Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death·2002
    Same author

    K(+) currents responsible for repolarization in mouse ventricle and their modulation by FK-506 and rapamycin.

    American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology·2000
    Same author

    Ca(2+) channel modulation by recombinant auxiliary beta subunits expressed in young adult heart cells.

    Circulation research·2000
    Same author

    Independent inhibition of calcineurin and K+ currents by the immunosuppressant FK-506 in rat ventricle.

    The American journal of physiology·1998
    Same journal

    Outgroup friendships and social influence in the development of adolescent attitudes toward secondary outgroups.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    Same journal

    The impact of "relational" Artificial Intelligence on human well-being: A self-determination theory analysis.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    Same journal

    Is my loneliness killing me? Effects of loneliness and social isolation on transitions between cognitive status categories and death.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    Same journal

    Listening across the divide: High-quality listening promotes speakers' state well-being through basic psychological need satisfaction during disagreements.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    Same journal

    Morality cut both ways: The role of cognition and emotion in attitude moralization and demoralization.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    Same journal

    The predictive validity of vocational interests for life outcomes across adulthood.

    Journal of personality and social psychology·2026
    See all related articles

    Self-reference enhances memory recall. This study shows that processing personal information using self-reference leads to better memory encoding and retrieval compared to other methods.

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Neuroscience
    • Human Information Processing

    Background:

    • The self plays a crucial role in how individuals process and remember personal information.
    • Understanding the mechanisms of self-reference in memory is key to cognitive science.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the extent to which the self is involved in processing personal information.
    • To compare the effectiveness of self-reference encoding against structural, phonemic, and semantic encoding tasks.

    Main Methods:

    • Subjects rated adjectives using four distinct encoding tasks: structural, phonemic, semantic, and self-reference.
    • Incidental recall of the rated words was measured in two separate experiments.

    Main Results:

    Related Experiment Videos

    • Adjectives rated under the self-reference task demonstrated significantly better recall compared to other encoding conditions.
    • Self-reference was identified as a highly effective and potent encoding process.

    Conclusions:

    • The self functions as a superordinate schema within the human information-processing system.
    • Self-reference is deeply integrated into the processing, interpretation, and memory formation of personal information.