El Haj Mohamad, Allain Philippe, Lucenet Joanna, Ndobo André
Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL - EA 4638), F-44000 Nantes, France1.
Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France2.
Adv Cogn Psychol. 2020 Jul 27;16(3):242-247. doi: 10.5709/acp-0300-2. eCollection 2020.
Destination memory refers to the ability to remember to whom one has sent information. The current study investigated gender differences in destination memory. Female and male participants were asked to tell proverbs to pictures depicting faces of female and male celebrities. Participants were later asked to decide to whom each proverb had been previously told. Results showed better destination memory (regardless of the destination's gender) in female participants than in male participants, a performance that was significantly correlated with verbal episodic memory. However, no own-gender bias was observed, as both female and male participants demonstrated similar memory for female and male destinations. Taken together, our findings suggest a relationship between females' superiority in destination memory and their better verbal episodic memory. The absence of an own-gender bias in destination memory is interpreted an evolutionary need to maintain social contacts with all genders.
目的记忆是指记住自己把信息发送给了谁的能力。当前的研究调查了目的记忆中的性别差异。研究要求男性和女性参与者对着描绘男女名人面孔的图片讲述谚语。之后，参与者需要决定之前每条谚语是讲给了谁。结果显示，女性参与者的目的记忆（无论接收者的性别）优于男性参与者，且这一表现与言语情景记忆显著相关。然而，未观察到自身性别偏见，因为男性和女性参与者对男女接收者的记忆表现相似。综合来看，我们的研究结果表明女性在目的记忆方面的优势与其更好的言语情景记忆之间存在关联。目的记忆中不存在自身性别偏见被解释为是与所有性别维持社会联系的一种进化需求。
