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Selective factors in memory. Part 1: age, sex and personality attributes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

W. A. Lishman
W. A. Lishman
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
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Synopsis

Material with pleasurable affective connotations has been found to be better recalled to a significant extent than material with unpleasant connotations in healthy volunteer subjects. Age, neuroticism and extraversion, but not sex, have proved to be associated with the variability which different subjects show in this regard. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to various theoretical constructs which seek to explain the interaction between personality variables and cognitive performance.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1972 , pp. 121 - 138
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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