SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2018
A meta-analysis of the survival-processing advantage in memory.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The survival processing advantage in memory using virtual reality versus traditional desktop display: Does it make a difference?Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Adaptive memory: The effects of survival-constrained retrieval on recognition depend on initial encoding conditions.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Does source reliability moderate the survival processing effect? The role of linguistic markers as reliability cues.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- A direct replication and extension of Popp and Serra (2016, experiment 1): better free recall and worse cued recall of animal names than object names, accounting for semantic similarity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness.PloS one · 2021Article
- Adaptive Memory: Generality of the Parent Processing Effect and Effects of Biological Relatedness on Recall.Evolutionary psychological science · 2020Article
- Paired-associate learning, animacy, and imageability effects in the survival advantage.Memory & cognition · 2020Article
- Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Survival Processing Advantage of Face: The Memorization of the (Un)Trustworthy Face Contributes More to Survival Adaptation.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Adaptive Memory: Story Processing Improves Recall Performance.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
The survival-processing advantage occurs when processing words for their survival value improves later performance on a memory test. Due to the interest in this topic, we conducted a meta-analysis to review the literature regarding the survival-processing advantage, in order to estimate a bias-corrected effect size. Traditional meta-analytic methods were used, as well as the test of excess significance, p-curve, p-uniform, trim and fill, PET-PEESE, and selection models, to reevaluate previous effect sizes while controlling for forms of small-study-size effects. The average effect sizes for survival processing ranged between η
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