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Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips — Science
- Key
- sparrow-liu-wegner-2011-google-effects
- Authors
- Sparrow, Betsy; Liu, Jenny; Wegner, Daniel M.
- Issued
- 2011-8-5
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Science
- Volume
- 333
- Issue
- 6043
- Pages
- 776-778
Raw CSL JSON
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"DOI": "10.1126/science.1207745",
"URL": "https://dtg.sites.fas.harvard.edu/DANWEGNER/pub/Sparrow%20et%20al.%202011.pdf",
"page": "776-778",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "6043",
"title": "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips",
"author": [
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"given": "Betsy",
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"given": "Jenny",
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{
"given": "Daniel M.",
"family": "Wegner"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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Claims
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In a between-subjects experiment, participants who believed that statements they typed into a computer would be saved had significantly lower recall of those statements than participants who believed they would be erased; the effect of an explicit instruction to remember was not significant.
"A between-subjects 2 (saved or erased) by 2 (explicit memory instructions versus none) ANOVA revealed a significant main effect for only the saved/erased manipulation, as those who believed that the computer erased what they typed had the best recall, omnibus F(3, 56) = 2.80, P < 0.05"
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Participants better recalled the folder location where a statement had been saved than the content of the statement itself; recall for the place where information was kept averaged 0.49 versus 0.23 for the statements themselves.
"Overall, participants recalled the places where the statements were kept (M = 0.49, SD = 0.26) better than they recalled the statements themselves (M = 0.23, SD = 0.14), between-subject t(31) = 6.70, P < 0.001 two-tailed."
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