Biculturals' Flexible Identity Affects the Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories: an Online Replication of Wang (2008) Using a Pretest-Posttest Group Design
The current study is a conceptual replication of Wang (2008) using a pretest-posttest design and an online sample through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Seventy-one Asian-Americans recalled a recent memory before and after being primed as either Asian or American. On pre-prime memories, conditions d...
| Published in: | Journal of cognition and culture |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of cognition and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Biography research
/ Biculturalism
/ Cultural identity
/ Memory
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
memory retrieval
B Autobiographical memory B bicultural B Ethnic Identity B Priming |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The current study is a conceptual replication of Wang (2008) using a pretest-posttest design and an online sample through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Seventy-one Asian-Americans recalled a recent memory before and after being primed as either Asian or American. On pre-prime memories, conditions did not significantly differ. However, on post-prime memories, participants primed as American recalled more self-focused memories than relationally focused memories and those primed as Asian recalled more relationally focused memories than self-focused memories. In addition, memories of Asian-Americans primed as American consisted of a smaller proportion of social interaction instances than those primed as Asian. In total, 6 of the 8 effects found in Wang (2008) were replicated. We discuss the implications that the current results and past studies have on our understanding of how culture influences memory encoding and retrieval. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5373 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340057 |