: Memory: negation-induced forgetting

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negation-induced forgetting

Answering questions by rightly denying incorrect facts about an item (for example, after seeing a blue carpet, answering "No" to the question "Was the carpet yellow? ") increases the risk of forgetting this item compared to answering yes to questions about exact facts about this item (answering "Yes" to the question "Was the carpet blue?").

• Mayo, R., Schul, Y., & Rosenthal, M. (2014). If you negate, you may forget: Negated repetitions impair memory compared with affirmative repetitions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1541-1552. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036122

• Document type: empirical study

• Access: closed
• Zang, A., Beltrán, D., Wang, H., González, K. R., & de Vega, M. (2023). The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference. Cognition, 235, 105412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105412

• Document type: empirical study
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• Access: open

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