title: Higher social intelligence can impair source memory.
abstract: Source monitoring is made difficult when the similarity between candidate sources increases. The current work examines how individual differences in social intelligence and perspective-taking abilities serve to increase source similarity and thus negatively impact source memory. Strangers first engaged in a cooperative storytelling task. On each trial, a single word was shown to both participants, but only 1 participant was designated to add a story sentence, using this assigned word. As predicted, social intelligence negatively predicted performance in a subsequent source-monitoring task. In a 2nd study, preventing participants from being able to anticipate their partner's next contribution to the story eliminated the effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, NY 11794-2500, USA. sarah.barber@sunysb.edu
authors.forename: Sarah J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Barber
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naka
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
mesh_terms: D056348:Emotional Intelligence / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D014825:Vocabulary