Dissociative tendencies, attention, and memory
| dc.contributor.author | DePrince, Anne P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Freyd, Jennifer J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2003-08-14T21:29:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2003-08-14T21:29:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Two groups of college students were selected on the basis of their scores on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES). The high-DES group and low-DES group both completed the standard and a new dual-task version of the Stroop ink-naming task with xs (baseline condition) and color, neutral, and emotionally charged words. Free recall results indicated that high-DES participants remembered fewer emotionally charged words than low-DES participants. We found a crossover interaction for Stroop interference: High-DES participants showed more interference (conflicting color--baseline latency for ink naming) in a selective-attention Stroop task and less interference in the dual-task Stroop task. The interaction between attentional context and dissociation for Stroop interference and the free recall results are consistent with a cognitive-environments view of dissociative tendencies. In this view, dissociative tendencies, which have been otherwise speculated to be largely deleterious, can be advantageous in certain contexts. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | DePrince, A.P. & Freyd, J.J. (1999) Dissociative tendencies, attention, and memory. Psychological Science, 10, 449-452. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0956-7976 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/91 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Blackwell | en |
| dc.title | Dissociative tendencies, attention, and memory | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |