Professor of Dementia Research Richard Cheston Richard.Cheston@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Mental Health (Dementia Care)
Professor of Dementia Research Richard Cheston Richard.Cheston@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Mental Health (Dementia Care)
Dr Emily Dodd Emily3.Dodd@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Gary Christopher Gary.Christopher@uwe.ac.uk
Occasional Associate Lecturer - CHSS - AHP
Tim Wildschut
Constantine Sedikides
Dementia represents a more immediate threat for older than for younger adults. Consequently, different strategies may be used to defend the self against the threat of dementia. We hypothesised that older (compared to younger) adults are more likely to manifest mnemic neglect (in which information that is threatening to the self is selectively forgotten) to reduce distress for dementia-related information. Fifty-nine participants aged under 50 and 44 participants aged over 50 recalled 24 dementia-related statements that were either high or low in negativity. Participants were randomised to recall statements that referred either to themselves or another person. High-negativity, self-referent statements had the most substantial threat potential. The recall of older (but not younger) participants for high-negativity (vs. low-negativity) dementia-related statements was impaired when these statements referred to the self rather than to another person. These results indicate that older adults evince mnemic neglect in response to self-threatening information about dementia.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 23, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 29, 2020 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Oct 23, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 30, 2021 |
Journal | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition |
Print ISSN | 1382-5585 |
Electronic ISSN | 1744-4128 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-13 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1842850 |
Keywords | Alzheimer’s disease; dementia; memory, short-term; amnesia, anterograde; self-concept; mnemic neglect |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6804123 |
The mnemic neglect effect and information about dementia: Age differences in recall
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. Cheston, R., Dodd, E., Christopher, G., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). The mnemic neglect effect and information about dementia: Age differences in recall. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 29(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1842850. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. Cheston, R., Dodd, E., Christopher, G., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). The mnemic neglect effect and information about dementia: Age differences in recall. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 29(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1842850. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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