Pinto Raquel, Albuquerque Pedro B
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Memory. 2024 Oct;32(9):1173-1181. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2391407. Epub 2024 Aug 18.
Several studies observed that a worse destination memory (i.e., capacity to remember to whom we said something) occurs when personal facts are shared, which was explained based on the internal attentional focus - the attentional focus is on the information and not on the recipient of the information. So, with two experiments, we aimed to mitigate the negative influence of the internal attentional focus on destination memory. Since it was previously observed that sharing information with distinctive faces leads to a better destination memory, in Experiment 1, participants ( = 30) were asked to transmit personal facts to distinctive and undistinctive faces. No differences were observed. To increase the attentional focus on the recipient of the information, in Experiment 2, participants ( = 30) were also asked to evaluate the distinctiveness of the recipients' faces. A better destination memory was not observed in Experiment 2 compared with Experiment 1. This leads us to conclude that asking participants to evaluate the faces did not promote a better destination memory when personal facts were shared. Nevertheless, by asking to evaluate the faces, the attentional focus was on the faces, where distinctive faces attracted more attention and led to a better destination memory.
多项研究观察到，当分享个人信息时，目标记忆（即记住我们对谁说了某事的能力）会变差，这是基于内部注意力焦点来解释的——注意力焦点在于信息而非信息的接收者。因此，我们通过两个实验，旨在减轻内部注意力焦点对目标记忆的负面影响。由于之前观察到与独特面孔分享信息会带来更好的目标记忆，在实验1中，30名参与者被要求向独特面孔和普通面孔传递个人信息。未观察到差异。为了增加对信息接收者的注意力焦点，在实验2中，30名参与者还被要求评估接收者面孔的独特性。与实验1相比，实验2中未观察到更好的目标记忆。这使我们得出结论，当分享个人信息时，要求参与者评估面孔并不会促进更好的目标记忆。然而，通过要求评估面孔，注意力焦点集中在面孔上，其中独特面孔吸引了更多关注并带来了更好的目标记忆。
