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Misremembrance of Options Past: Source Monitoring and Choice

Mather, Mara, Shafir, Eldar, Johnson, Marcia K.·2000·Psychological Science
DOI 10.1111/1467-9280.00228
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This study reveals that when remembering past decisions, people engage in choice-supportive memory distortion. When asked to make memory attributions of options' features, participants made source-monitoring errors that supported their decisions. They tended to attribute, both correctly and incorrectly, more positive features to the option they had selected than to its competitor. In addition, they sometimes attributed, both correctly and incorrectly, more negative features to the nonselected option. This pattern of distortion may be beneficial to people's general well-being, reducing regret for options not taken. At the same time, it is problematic for memory accuracy, for accountability, and for learning from past experience.

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Authors
Mather, M., Shafir, E., & Johnson, M. K.
Venue
Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2000-03
Volume
11
Issue
2
Pages
132-138
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
DOI
10.1111/1467-9280.00228
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202
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3
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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