CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
The self-reference effect in memory: A meta-analysis — Psychological Bulletin
- Key
- symons-johnson-1997-meta-analysis
- Authors
- Symons, Cynthia S.; Johnson, Blair T.
- Issued
- 1997
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Psychological Bulletin
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 371-394
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.1037/0033-2909.121.3.371",
"URL": "https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/chip_docs/9",
"page": "371-394",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "3",
"title": "The self-reference effect in memory: A meta-analysis",
"author": [
{
"given": "Cynthia S.",
"family": "Symons"
},
{
"given": "Blair T.",
"family": "Johnson"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
1997
]
]
},
"volume": "121",
"container-title": "Psychological Bulletin"
}
Claims
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A meta-analysis found that self-referent encoding produced better memory than both semantic encoding and other-referent encoding, and attributed the effect mainly to the self being a well-developed, often-used construct that promotes elaboration and organization of encoded information.
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