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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > self-reference effect > ownership effect

Preferred term

ownership effect  

Definition

  • A memory phenomenon observed when memory for objects owned by the subject is better than memory for objects owned by another person.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • ownership-induced self-bias
  • ownership self-reference effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Clarkson, T., Paff, H. A., Cunningham, S., Ross, J., Haslam, C., & Kritikos, A. (2024). Mine for life: Charting ownership effects in memory from adolescence to old age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241254119. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241254119

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Clarkson, T. R., Cunningham, S. J., Haslam, C., & Kritikos, A. (2022). Is self always prioritised? Attenuating the ownership self-reference effect in memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 106, 103420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103420

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Cunningham, S. J., Brady-Van den Bos, M., & Turk, D. J. (2011). Exploring the effects of ownership and choice on self-memory biases. Memory, 19(5), 449–461. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2011.584388

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Cunningham, S. J., Scott, L., Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Martin, D. (2018). Applying self-processing biases in education: Improving learning through ownership. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7(3), 342–351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.004

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Cunningham, S. J., Turk, D. J., Macdonald, L. M., & Neil Macrae, C. (2008). Yours or mine? Ownership and memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(1), 312-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.003

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Li, Q., Gao, J., Cao, C., & Li, T. (2023). The impact of group ownership on memory. The Journal of General Psychology, 150(3), 267–277. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2022.2047002

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Sparks, S., Cunningham, S. J., & Kritikos, A. (2016). Culture modulates implicit ownership-induced self-bias in memory. Cognition, 153, 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.003

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • van den Bos, M., Cunningham, S. J., Conway, M. A., & Turk, D. J. (2010). Mine to remember: The impact of ownership on recollective experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(6), 1065–1071. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470211003770938

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-WJJR1CX9-X

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