Prospective Memory and Positivity Bias in the COVID-19 Health Crisis: The Effects of Aging
dc.contributor.author | Aizpurua Sanz, Alaitz | |
dc.contributor.author | Migueles Seco, María Magdalena | |
dc.contributor.author | Aranberri Ruiz, Ainara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-07T08:31:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-07T08:31:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Psychology 12 : (2021) // Article ID 666977 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/53268 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to determine whether the observed tendency to remember more positive than negative past events (positivity phenomena) also appears when recalling hypothetical events about the future. In this study, young, middle-aged, and older adults were presented with 28 statements about the future associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, half positive and half negative. In addition, half of these statements were endowed with personal implications while the other half had a more social connotations. Participants rated their agreement/disagreement with each statement and, after a distraction task, they recalled as many statements as possible. There was no difference in the agreement ratings between the three age groups, but the participants agreed with positive statements more than with negative ones and they identified more with statements of social content than of personal content. The younger and older individuals recalled more statements than the middle-aged people. More importantly, older participants recalled more positive than negative statements (positivity effect), and showed a greater tendency to turn negative statements into more positive or neutral ones (positivity bias). These findings showed that the positivity effect occurs in even such complex and situations as the present pandemic, especially in older adults. The results are discussed by reference to the notion of commission errors and false memories resulting from the activation of cognitive biases. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | positivity effect | es_ES |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | es_ES |
dc.subject | aging | es_ES |
dc.subject | future events | es_ES |
dc.subject | false memories | es_ES |
dc.subject | positivity bias | es_ES |
dc.subject | personal and social contents | es_ES |
dc.subject | mental time-travel | es_ES |
dc.subject | emotional memory | es_ES |
dc.subject | autobiographical memory | es_ES |
dc.subject | individual-differences | es_ES |
dc.subject | age-differences | es_ES |
dc.subject | future | es_ES |
dc.subject | involuntary | es_ES |
dc.subject | depression | es_ES |
dc.subject | attention | es_ES |
dc.title | Prospective Memory and Positivity Bias in the COVID-19 Health Crisis: The Effects of Aging | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | 2021 Aizpurua, Migueles and Aranberri. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666977/full | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666977 | |
dc.departamentoes | Procesos psicológicos básicos y su desarrollo | es_ES |
dc.departamentoes | Psicología evolutiva y de la educación | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Bilakaeraren eta hezkuntzaren psikologia | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Oinarrizko psikologia prozesuak eta haien garapena | es_ES |
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