Title | Neuroticism influences informant ratings of other people’s memory performance |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | Buchanan, T. and Loveday, C. |
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Abstract | Informant-reports of cognitive performance may be influenced by factors other than the actual status of the individual being rated. Two studies tested the hypothesis that informant neuroticism was associated with higher ratings of a target’s memory problems. Study 1 found that more neurotic students rated their professor as having more memory problems. Study 2 found that more neurotic participants rated a participant in a simulated cognitive testing session as having more memory problems, but did not show any such biases in their estimates of how many mistakes were actually made in the testing session. These studies provide evidence that more neurotic individuals rate the memory performance of others as worse. This does not appear to be due to vigilance for objective indicators of cognitive performance. These findings may have implications for how informant-report measures are used in research and clinical practice. |
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Keywords | memory, informant report, neuroticism, proxy |
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Article number | 110209 |
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Journal | Personality and Individual Differences |
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Journal citation | 166 |
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ISSN | 0191-8869 |
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Year | 2020 |
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Publisher | Elsevier |
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Accepted author manuscript | License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110209 |
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Publication dates |
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Published online | 22 Jun 2020 |
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