School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Université Nantes, Laboratoire de psychologie des Pays de la Loire, LPPL, Nantes, France.
Scand J Psychol. 2021 Aug;62(4):502-509. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12734. Epub 2021 May 10.
Destination memory involves remembering to whom we told information. Low accuracy of this memory is linked to higher self-focus and lower attentional resources allocated to the recipient of the information. The present paper aimed to investigate whether the existence of distinctive features (e.g., tattoos) of destination face would improve destination memory, in a within- (Experiment 1 and 2) and between-participants (Experiment 3) design. In a destination memory task, participants had to tell proverbs to faces that presented a distinctive feature and to other faces that did not. Results showed that a destination memory advantage only occurs when faces with different distinctive features are compared to faces without distinctive features (Experiment 1). These results are in accordance with the existing theoretical framework on destination memory and distinctiveness; highlighting the importance of personal attributes, namely, the distinctiveness of the destination face and the relativity of distinctiveness in destination memory.
目的记忆涉及到记住我们向谁传达了信息。这种记忆的准确性较低，与自我关注程度较高和分配给信息接收者的注意力资源较低有关。本文旨在通过内（实验 1 和 2）和外（实验 3）参与者设计，调查目标面孔的独特特征（如纹身）的存在是否会改善目标记忆。在目标记忆任务中，参与者必须将谚语告诉有独特特征的面孔和没有独特特征的面孔。结果表明，只有当具有不同独特特征的面孔与没有独特特征的面孔进行比较时，才会出现目标记忆优势（实验 1）。这些结果与关于目标记忆和独特性的现有理论框架一致；突出了个人属性的重要性，即目标面孔的独特性和目标记忆中独特性的相对性。
