文の偶発記憶に及ぼす共感の効果

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of empathy on incidental memory of simple sentences. The experiment was conducted in incidental memory paradigm. Participants were asked to judge whether they experience each episode described in a target sentence or not, and also required to rate the degree of empathy to emotion aroused by each sentence and the pleasantness of each sentence, followed by interpolated task and unexpected free recall test. For the sentences that each participant gave a higher rating of empathy, there were no differece among the free recall performance of pleasant, neutral and unpleasant sentences. Wheras for the sentences that they gave lower rating, unpeasant sentences were recalled more than the neutral and the pleasant sentences. The effects of empathy to emotion on recall performance was observed in the participants with higher score of emapthic experience of the revised empathic exeprience scale ( Kakuta, 1994). Namely for the pleasant sentence, participants recalled the sentences of higher rating of empathy more than the sentences of lower rating of empathy, but for the unpleasant sentences, there was no difference between the two type of sentences (high and low rating of empathy). These results were interpreted as showing that the empathy to emotion was one of the determinants for the effectiveness of emotion on incidental memory.
2010-11-30