Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL - EA 4638), Nantes Université, Nantes, France.
Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France.
Scand J Psychol. 2021 Feb;62(1):1-6. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12657. Epub 2020 Jul 1.
Research has demonstrated that destination memory (i.e., the ability to remember to whom information was previously told) can be influenced by characteristics (e.g., emotional expressions and age) of the destination. Building on this literature, we investigated whether destination memory can be influenced by the attractiveness of the destination. We invited participants to give information on attractive faces, unattractive faces, or neither-attractive-nor-unattractive faces. On a recognition test, they were invited to decide to whom each piece of information had been previously told. Results demonstrated higher destination memory (1) for attractive faces than for neither-attractive-nor-unattractive faces, and (2) for unattractive faces than for neither-attractive-nor-unattractive faces. We attribute the higher destination memory for attractive and unattractive destinations to their distinctiveness compared with neutrally attractive destinations. We also provide some attentional explanations for the high memory for attractive and unattractive destinations.
研究表明，目标记忆（即记住之前向谁传达信息的能力）可能会受到目标特征（如情绪表达和年龄）的影响。基于这一文献，我们研究了目标的吸引力是否会影响目标记忆。我们邀请参与者提供有关有吸引力的面孔、无吸引力的面孔或既无吸引力也无不吸引力的面孔的信息。在识别测试中，他们被邀请决定每一条信息之前是向谁传达的。结果表明，（1）与既无吸引力也无不吸引力的面孔相比，参与者对有吸引力的面孔的目标记忆更高；（2）与既无吸引力也无不吸引力的面孔相比，参与者对无吸引力的面孔的目标记忆更高。我们将有吸引力和无吸引力的目标的更高的目标记忆归因于它们与中性吸引力的目标相比的独特性。我们还为有吸引力和无吸引力的目标的高记忆提供了一些注意力解释。
