Two experiments examined the hypothesis that misrepresentation of past attitudes and mating motives lead to reduced memory accuracy of past attitudes. In Experiment 1, participants told an attractive or unattractive member of the opposite sex their past attitude toward mandatory comprehensive exams. Participants told their partner their attitude either before or after learning that their partner was strongly in favor of mandatory exams. For participants who told their attitudes after learning their partner's attitude, participants who told an attractive partner recalled being more positive toward mandatory exams than participants who told an unattractive partner. Experiment 2 manipulated the target of telling the attitude (either to their partner or anonymously to the experimenter). The results from both experiments provide evidence that misrepresenting attitudes affects memory of initial attitudes. Mating motivation, furthermore, is one moderator that affects this relationship.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-05042011-123044 |
| Date | 04 May 2011 |
| Creators | Brady, Sara |
| Contributors | Charles G Lord, No search engine access |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05042011-123044/ |
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