Memory for expectancy-congruent and expectancy-incongruent information: A review of the social and social developmental literatures.

1992/01/01 by Charles Stangor, David W. McMillan · 4 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Memory Processes and Influences #Identity, Memory, and Therapy #Psychological and Educational Research Studies #Expectancy theory #Psychology #Developmental psychology #Life expectancy #Cognitive psychology #Social psychology #Sociology #Demography

paper · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.111.1.42

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Abstract

A meta-analysis of 54 experiments investigated the influence of social expectations on memory for information that is congruent and incongruent with those expectations

Citations

• Testing hypotheses about other people: The use of historical knowledge
• Self-schemata and processing information about the self.
• Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing

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