dc.contributor.author | Bentley, SV | |
dc.contributor.author | Greenaway, KH | |
dc.contributor.author | Haslam, SA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-27T11:19:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | People reliably encode information more effectively when it is related in some way to the self-a phenomenon known as the self-reference effect. This effect has been recognized in psychological research for almost 40 years, and its scope as a tool for investigating the self-concept is still expanding. The self-reference effect has been used within a broad range of psychological research, from cultural to neuroscientific, cognitive to clinical. Traditionally, the self-reference effect has been investigated in a laboratory context, which limits its applicability in non-laboratory samples. This paper introduces an online version of the self-referential encoding paradigm that yields reliable effects in an easy-to-administer procedure. Across four studies (total N = 658), this new online tool reliably replicated the traditional self-reference effect: in all studies self-referentially encoded words were recalled significantly more than semantically encoded words (d = 0.63). Moreover, the effect sizes obtained with this online tool are similar to those obtained in laboratory samples, and are robust to experimental variations in encoding time (Studies 1 and 2) and recall procedure (Studies 3 and 4), and persist independent of primacy and recency effects (all studies). | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was funded by the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, http://www.arc.gov.au/, FL110100199, to SAH. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 12, No. 5, Article number: e0176611 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0176611 | |
dc.identifier.other | PONE-D-16-24135 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28657 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.title | An online paradigm for exploring the self-reference effect. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-27T11:19:06Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version | en_GB |
dc.description | Also available from PLoS via the DOI in this record | |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS One | en_GB |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC5417556 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28472160 | |