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Defining ourselves: Past and future self-defining events increase the accessibility of psychological self-concepts
Garcia Jimenez, Claudia; D'Argembeau, Arnaud
2019Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
 

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Keywords :
Future thinking; Autobiographical memory; Identity; Self-defining memories; Self-defining future projections; Self
Abstract :
[en] Recent research suggests that the retrieval of self-defining memories (SDMs)—the memories of the most important events in our lives—influences an individual’s current sense of self and identity, notably by increasing the tendency to conceptualize oneself in relation to psychological traits. In addition to being supported by such memories, our current sense of self may also be nourished by the anticipation of meaningful future events—referred to as self-defining future projections (SDFPs). To test this hypothesis, this study examined how SDFPs and SDMs modulate the current sense of self and identity. Three groups of participants wrote a description of a SDFP, a SDM or a non-self-related control topic, following which they had to provide ten stable aspects of their identity in the form of statements beginning with "I am". Participants engaging in SDFP and SDM descriptions generated significantly more psychological self-statements than those in the control condition. These results suggest that the act of projecting oneself into meaningful future events modulates the current sense of self to the same extent as autobiographical memory retrieval, by increasing the accessibility of psychological, trait-like self-conceptions.
Research center :
PsyNCog - Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Garcia Jimenez, Claudia  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Master sc. psycho., à fin.
D'Argembeau, Arnaud  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Département de Psychologie
Language :
English
Title :
Defining ourselves: Past and future self-defining events increase the accessibility of psychological self-concepts
Publication date :
14 May 2019
Number of pages :
A0
Event name :
Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
Event organizer :
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
ULiège - Université de Liège
Event date :
14 - 15 mai 2019
Audience :
International
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