The DOI matches its Crossref record; 28 of the 28 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Externalising the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention
Abstract
Internet technology provides a new means of recalling and sharing personal memories in the digital age. What is the mnemonic consequence of posting personal memories online? Theories of transactive memory and autobiographical memory would make contrasting predictions. In the present study, college students completed a daily diary for a week, listing at the end of each day all the events that happened to them on that day. They also reported whether they posted any of the events online. Participants received a surprise memory test after the completion of the diary recording and then another test a week later. At both tests, events posted online were significantly more likely than those not posted online to be recalled. It appears that sharing memories online may provide unique opportunities for rehearsal and meaning-making that facilitate memory retention.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Second, the fact that the information shared online tends to be curated more carefully, which also includes reflecting about an event's meaning as well as its key components, leads to a better internal memory for these events compared to information that is not shared (Johnson & Morley, 2021;Wang et al., 2017; see also Stone & Wang, 2019).”
From Understanding Autobiographical Memory in the Digital Age: The AMEDIA-Model (2024) · cites this paper as Wang et al., 2017
Citations
Cites
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system
Conway, M. A., & Pleydell-Pearce, C. W. (2000) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.107.2.261 · Cited by 4,089
Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis
Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (1984) · Cited by 3,925
The Psychology of Life Stories
McAdams, D. P. (2001) · Review of General Psychology · doi:10.1037/1089-2680.5.2.100 · Cited by 2,808 · cited 2×
“It is critical for identity and psychological wellbeing, especially during adolescence and emerging adulthood when identity is being formed (Habermas & Bluck, 2000; McAdams, 2001).”
BackgroundTransactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind
Wegner, D. M. (1987) · Theories of Group Behavior · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4634-3_9 · Cited by 2,700 · cited 3×
“Whereas the transactive memory theory (Wegner, 1986) would predict better recall of events that were not posted online, autobiographical memory theories (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Nelson & Fivush, 2004; Wang, 2013a) would predict better recall of events that were posted online.”
BackgroundResultGoogle Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips
Sparrow, B., Liu, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1207745 · Cited by 1,762 · cited 3×
“…knowledge that we can toss around to a physical or cyber location known to us and forget about the information itself until next time when we need it and then retrieve it from the location (Jiang, Hou, & Wang, 2016; Sparrow et al., 2011), memories of personal experiences constitute who we are.”
BackgroundInfluentialGetting a life: The emergence of the life story in adolescence.
Habermas, T., & Bluck, S. (2000) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.5.748 · Cited by 1,743 · cited 2×
“It is critical for identity and psychological wellbeing, especially during adolescence and emerging adulthood when identity is being formed (Habermas & Bluck, 2000; McAdams, 2001).”
BackgroundThe emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory.
Nelson, K., & Fivush, R. (2004) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.111.2.486 · Cited by 1,609
Generalized linear mixed models a pseudo-likelihood approach
Wolfinger, R., & O'connell, M. (1993) · Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation · doi:10.1080/00949659308811554 · Cited by 1,271
Using SAS PROC MIXED to Fit Multilevel Models, Hierarchical Models, and Individual Growth Models
Singer, J. D. (1998) · Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics · doi:10.2307/1165280 · Cited by 1,092
(1987) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4634-3 · Cited by 968
Research works printed but not linked: 2
- Bell G., 2010, Your life, uploaded
- Littell R. C., 2006, SAS for mixed models
Cited by
Yap, K., & Grisham, J. R. (2019) · Journal of Behavioral Addictions · doi:10.1556/2006.8.2019.15 · Cited by 71
Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age
Eliseev, E. D., & Marsh, E. J. (2021) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.005 · Cited by 47
Sharifian, N., & Zahodne, L. B. (2021) · The Journal of General Psychology · doi:10.1080/00221309.2020.1743228 · Cited by 34
Spence, A., Beasley, K., Gravenkemper, H., Hoefler, A., Ngo, A., Ortiz, D., & Campisi, J. (2020) · Physiology & Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113172 · Cited by 30
Sharing Personal Memories on Ephemeral Social Media Facilitates Autobiographical Memory
Johnson, A. J., & Morley, E. G. (2021) · Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking · doi:10.1089/cyber.2020.0511 · Cited by 22
Metadata
- Authors
- Wang, Q., Lee, D., & Hou, Y.
- Venue
- Memory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-08-17
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 772-776
- ISSN
- 0965-8211
- 1464-0686
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 28
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (31528014)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (Hatch Grant)
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Externalising the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/09658211.2016.1221115
- The paper
- Wang, Q., Lee, D., & Hou, Y. (2017). Externalising the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1221115
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
