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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > survival processing effect

Preferred term

survival processing effect  

Definition

  • A memory phenomenon observed when people remember words better after judging their relevance to a survival context.

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • survival-processing advantage

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bonin, P., & Bugaiska, A. (2014). « Survivre pour se souvenir ». Une approche novatrice de la mémoire humaine : la mémoire adaptative. L’Année Psychologique, 114(3), 571–610. https://doi.org/10.4074/S0003503314003066

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Bonin, P., Thiebaut, G., & Méot, A. (2024). Ratings of survival-related dimensions for a set of 732 words, their relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and memory performance. Current Psychology, 43(9), 8200–8218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04979-2

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2022). Survival processing effect. In R. F. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions : Intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgment, and memory (3rd ed.). Routledge.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Murphy, D. H. (2023). Survival processing and directed forgetting: Enhanced memory for both to-be-remembered and to-be-forgotten information. Memory, 31(9), 1147–1162. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2229977

    [Study type: empirical study, replication / Access: closed]
  • • Nairne, J. S. (2010). Adaptive memory: Evolutionary constraints on remembering. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 53, p. 1–32). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-7421(10)53001-9

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716. doi:10.1126/science.aac4716

    [Study type: empirical study, replication / Access: closed]
  • • Parker, A., Parkin, A., & Dagnall, N. (2021). Effects of survival processing on list method directed forgetting. Memory, 29(5), 645–661. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1931338

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Scofield, J. E., Buchanan, E. M., & Kostic, B. (2018). A meta-analysis of the survival-processing advantage in memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(3), 997–1012. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1346-0

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
  • • Wang, Y., Zhang, L., Kan, H., & Gao, J. (2023). Survival processing advantage demonstrated with virtual reality-based survival environment: A promising tool for survival processing research. Memory & Cognition, 51(1), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01341-y

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Wöstenfeld, F. O., Ahmad, S., Kroneisen, M., & Rummel, J. (2020). Does the survival processing memory advantage translate to serial recall? Collabra: Psychology, 6(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.243

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Forester,Forester, G. (2020, October 10). Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory. https://osf.io/tdyrb/
  • • Nieuwenstein, M., Hansen-Manguikian, L., Yildirim, B., & Ainsworth, S. (2021, May 29). Understanding the survival processing advantage for memory. https://osf.io/tcevb/
  • • Renkewitz, F., & Müller, S. M. (2016, August 19). Replication of Nairne, Pandeirada, & Thompson (2008, PS, Study 2). https://osf.io/jhkpe/
  • • Rummel, J., Kroneisen, M., & Wöstenfeld, F. O. (2019, November 25). Survival Processing and Serial Recall. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/U5MK3
  • • Scofield, J. E., Buchanan, E. M., & Kostic, B. (2017, August 2). A Meta-analysis of the Survival Processing Advantage in Memory. https://osf.io/6sd8e/
  • • Surviving in a second language: Survival processing effect in memory of bilinguals. (2020). [Data set]. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13186584.v1
  • • Wang, J. (2018, October 29). Survival processing and production effect. https://osf.io/ntvb7/
  • • Wöstenfeld, F. O., Suhaib, A., Kroneisen, M., & Rummel, J. (2019). Does the survival processing memory advantage translate to serial recall? [Data set]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2593683

Editorial note

  • The survival processing effect was also observed with pictures as stimuli, in recall and recognition tasks, in children, adults, and the elderly, in between- and within-subject designs.

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