The power of our names, faces, and the self-reference effect: is there more than meets the eye?
In mythological tales, our names and facial images are often gifted a quasi-magical power. When psychologists use these self-representations (or even items we simply imagine are ‘me/mine’) as stimuli in experimental tasks, studies have shown that our perception, memory, decision-making, and actions...
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| description | In mythological tales, our names and facial images are often gifted a quasi-magical power. When psychologists use these self-representations (or even items we simply imagine are ‘me/mine’) as stimuli in experimental tasks, studies have shown that our perception, memory, decision-making, and actions can be enhanced. The phenomenon has been termed the Self-Reference Effect (SRE). Does an underlying ‘self’ mechanism underpin these effects? Or, do the effects arise because the stimuli are simply more rewarding, familiar, or deeply-encoded? Could the empirical treatment of the SRE be echoing a faulty folk-intuition that the self is a unitary entity? This article briefly explores the colourful history of self-representations, the research field of the SRE, and some of its key challenges. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:66e8fa6c-05af-412e-abb7-d07643db326d2022-03-26T18:34:49ZThe power of our names, faces, and the self-reference effect: is there more than meets the eye?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:66e8fa6c-05af-412e-abb7-d07643db326dSymplectic Elements at OxfordPsychology Postgraduate Affairs Group2019Desebrock, CIn mythological tales, our names and facial images are often gifted a quasi-magical power. When psychologists use these self-representations (or even items we simply imagine are ‘me/mine’) as stimuli in experimental tasks, studies have shown that our perception, memory, decision-making, and actions can be enhanced. The phenomenon has been termed the Self-Reference Effect (SRE). Does an underlying ‘self’ mechanism underpin these effects? Or, do the effects arise because the stimuli are simply more rewarding, familiar, or deeply-encoded? Could the empirical treatment of the SRE be echoing a faulty folk-intuition that the self is a unitary entity? This article briefly explores the colourful history of self-representations, the research field of the SRE, and some of its key challenges. |
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