Browsing Psychology by Author "Lee, Christopher"
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Context reinstatement reconsidered: Investigating boundary conditions of the effect
Lee, Christopher Michael (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-23)The context reinstatement (CR) effect suggests that target items are easier to recognize when encoding and retrieval contexts are matched. In this PhD thesis, I manipulated features of the target and the context, in ... -
Emotional Encoding Context Leads to Memory Bias in Individuals with High Anxiety
Lee, Christopher; Fernandes, Myra A. (MDPI, 2018-01)We investigated whether anxious individuals, who adopt an inherently negative mindset, demonstrate a particularly salient memory bias for words tainted by negative contexts. To this end, sequentially presented target words, ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Lee, Christopher M.; Itier, Roxane J.; Fernandes, Myra A. (Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ... -
Negative Encoding Contexts Create a Downstream Memory Advantage for Foils
Lee, Christopher (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Research has suggested that during a recognition test, we re-enter the mode of processing engaged at encoding to help constrain our memory search during retrieval (Jacoby, Shimizu, Daniels, & Rhodes, 2005). A by-product ...