Mooren Nora, Krans Julie, Näring Gérard W B, Moulds Michelle L, van Minnen Agnes
Radboud University Nijmegen, Behavioural Science Institute, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The University of New South Wales, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; University of Leuven, Clinical Psychology, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Conscious Cogn. 2016 May;42:142-149. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.03.009. Epub 2016 Mar 19.
The vantage perspective from which a memory is retrieved influences the memory's emotional impact, intrusiveness, and phenomenological characteristics. This study tested whether similar effects are observed when participants were instructed to imagine the events from a specific perspective. Fifty student participants listened to a verbal report of car-accidents and visualized the scenery from either a field or observer perspective. There were no between-condition differences in emotionality of memories and the number of intrusions, but imagery experienced from a relative observer perspective was rated as less self-relevant. In contrast to earlier studies on memory retrieval, vantage perspective influenced phenomenological memory characteristics of the memory representation such as sensory details, and ratings of vividness and distancing of the memory. However, vantage perspective is most likely not a stable phenomenological characteristic itself. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
记忆提取时所采用的有利视角会影响记忆的情感影响、侵扰性和现象学特征。本研究测试了，当参与者被指示从特定视角想象事件时，是否会观察到类似的效果。五十名学生参与者听取了车祸的口头报告，并从现场或观察者视角想象场景。在记忆的情感性和侵扰次数方面，不同条件之间没有差异，但从相对观察者视角体验到的意象被评定为与自我相关性较低。与早期关于记忆提取的研究不同，有利视角影响了记忆表征的现象学记忆特征，如感官细节，以及记忆的生动性和疏离感评分。然而，有利视角本身很可能不是一个稳定的现象学特征。文中讨论了对未来研究的启示和建议。
