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Can The Survival Processing Effect Be Replicated In Non-Ancestral Survival Scenarios?, Ciro Griffiths
Can The Survival Processing Effect Be Replicated In Non-Ancestral Survival Scenarios?, Ciro Griffiths
Honors Theses
When primed to think about one’s survival, participants experience an increase in recall for a set of words. This result called the ‘survival processing effect’ was initially found for participants primed to think about their survival in an ancestral environment. The present study was designed to access whether the effect could be replicated in non-ancestral scenarios. Analyses showed that the effect could be replicated and that non-ancestral scenarios even led to a slightly higher level of recall than the traditional ancestral scenario. Various characteristics of the modern scenarios are believed to have been responsible for this finding including an increase …
The Extent To Which “Death And Disgust” Thoughts Influence Recall In Survival Processing Scenarios, Melanie Kramer
The Extent To Which “Death And Disgust” Thoughts Influence Recall In Survival Processing Scenarios, Melanie Kramer
Honors Theses
Recently, researchers have found that survival processing enhances retention. This led the authors to speculate that our memory systems have been fine tuned to remember survival relevant information. One question that might be asked is what is it about thinking about one’s survival that aids memory? As an extension of my previous research, this project examines the extent to which death and disgust influence recall in survival processing scenarios, determining whether or not death and disgust play a role in the memory enhancement associated with survival processing scenarios. There are four conditions in this study differing in the amount of …