Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: some things are better left unsaid.

By Jonathan W. Schooler, Tonya Y Engstler-Schooler. 1990

Subfields: Evaluation & Benchmarks, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Verbal redescription of prior events has been most extensively studied via the phenomenon of “verbal overshadowing,” a term coined by Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) following evidence that verbal description of the perpetrator of a crime was associated with a 25% reduction in recognition of…”
Trying Hard or Hardly Trying: An Analysis of Context Effects in Choice (2000, background): “Similarly, Schooler and his colleagues (Dodson, Johnson, & Schooler, 1997; Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990) asked participants to think carefully about and to try to accurately describe objects that they had recently seen, such as a color chip or a person who committed a staged crime.”
Reasons as Carriers of Culture: Dynamic vs. Dispositional Models of Cultural Influence on Decision Making (2000, unknown): “…manipulated whether participants were required to verbally characterize faces as they learned to distinguish them—the requirement to report verbally led participants to focus on the features that were most easily verbalizable, even if not the most diagnostic (Schooler and Engstler-Schooler 1990).”
Rethinking interference theory: Executive control and the mechanisms of forgetting. (2003, background): “Research on verbal overshadowing has shown that describing a recently viewed face impairs later recognition of that face ( Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990 ).”
How Trustworthy Is the Scientific Literature in Industrial and Organizational Psychology? (2013, background): “…spatial task performance (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1993), social priming (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996), psychic effects (Bem, 2011), verbal overshadowing (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990), and ‘‘practical’’ intelligence measures purported to yield a general factor that is substantially different…”
A model of dual attitudes. (2000, background): “Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990), for example, found that asking people to verbalize then- memory for a face impaired recognition for that face.”
The Fit of Thinking Style and Situation: New Measures of Situation-Specific Experiential and Rational Cognition (2009, background): “While fit between task and mode of thought appear to improve performance, lack of fit has been found to degrade performance (Hammond et al. 1987; Hogarth 2005; McMacklin and Slovic 2000; Schooler, Ohlsson and Brooks 1993; Schooler and Engstler-Schooler 1990).”