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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017

Choice-Supportive Misremembering: A New Taxonomy and Review.

Martina Lind, Mimì Visentini, Timo Mäntylä, Fabio Del Missier

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Martina LindDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Mimì VisentiniDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Timo MäntyläDepartment of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fabio Del MissierDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the literature on the influence of memory on decisions is well developed, research on the effects of decision making on memory is rather sparse and scattered. Choice-supportive misremembering (i.e., misremembering choice-related information that boosts the chosen option and/or demotes the foregone options) has been observed in several studies and has the potential to affect future choices. Nonetheless, no attempt has been made to review the relevant literature, categorize the different types of choice-supportive misremembering observed, and critically appraise the existing evidence and proposed explanations. Thus, starting from a new theoretically motivated and empirically grounded taxonomy, we review the current research. Our taxonomy classifies choice-supportive misremembering into four conceptually distinct types:

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choice-supportive memorydecision makingepisodic memoryfact distortionfalse memorymisattributionpositivity biasselective forgetting

Identifiers

PMID29255436
PMCPMC5723021

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