Forgotten but not gone: the recall and recognition of self-threatening memories

By Jeffrey D. Green, Constantine Sedikides, A. Gregg. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults (2016, background): “For example, in the paragraphs above, we discussed findings (Green et al., 2008, Experiment 2) suggesting that an ego-inflation manipulation minimised mnemic neglect in recall, whereas an ego-deflation manipulation augmented it.”
On Passion for Life Activities (2010, background): “…with Self-Affirmation Theory (Steele, 1988), engagement in a subsequent task where performance is assessed would represent a welcome opportunity to redeem oneself and alleviate negative self-perceptions, to the extent that such a task is perceived as self-relevant (Green et al., 2008, Study 2).”
Self-enhancement and self-protection: What they are and what they do (2009, background): “For example, negative social/ performance feedback is remembered more poorly when it pertains to central self-aspects (e.g., untrustworthy, unkind) rather than peripheral selfaspects (e.g., unpredictable, complaining; Green et al., 2008; Sedikides & Green, 2000, 2004).”
Memory as a self-protective mechanism (2009, background): “…experiments are included: Green, Pinter, and Sedikides (2005), unmodifiable condition; Green and Sedikides (2004), high diagnosticity condition; Green, Sedikides, and Gregg (2008), Experiment 1; Green, Sedikides, Pinter, and Van Tongeren (2009), Experiment 1, control condition ; Sedikides and…”
Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self (2012, methodology): “We selected positive traits from the positive evaluative items that Greenwald and Farnham (2000) used to develop an Implicit Association Test of self-esteem.”