A Multinomial Modeling Analysis of Source Memory in Relation to Emotion Recognition

Navigation in social situations requires understanding others' emotional states accurately. Laboratory studies showed that memory plays a pivotal role in this mind-reading practice. Using the source memory paradigm, being able to remember contextual details of studied items, source memory, positively correlated with the accuracy of facial emotion recognition. An ability to learn the details of a context beyond the items in focus hence may matter in emotion recognition. However, earlier studies did not consistently separate source memory from generic memory of studied items. Moreover, response bias, which is irrelevant to the veridical memory, is not considered. The current study addresses these gaps regarding the association between source memory and emotion recognition. A community sample of 144 adults completed the source memory task as well as the multifaceted empathy task which assessed the ability to recognize emotional states of people in affect-charged situations. The latent-trait regression analysis, in which source memory, item memory, and guessing were disentangled according to the multinomial modeling, was utilized to examine their respective associations with emotion recognition. Consistent with the hypothesis, source memory, rather than item memory and guessing, positively correlated with emotion recognition. The association remained significant when age, gender, and education were controlled for. The findings provided support for the importance of source memory in emotion recognition.社交生活需要準確了解他人的情緒狀態。以前的實驗發現記憶在這項讀心能力中扮演重要的角色。利用測試來源記憶的範式，研究發現能夠記得所學項目中的情境細節（來源記憶）與辨認情緒的準確率有正相關。因此，能夠學習到在焦點以外情境中所包含的細節，對辨認他人的情緒可能很重要。不過，以前的研究未有分開來源記憶以及對所學項目本身的項目記憶。以前的研究亦未有考慮與真實記憶無關，反應偏向的影響。是次研究旨在解決文獻中這些有關來源記憶與情緒辨認關聯的問題。是次研究從社區中邀請144名成年參加者進行測試，分別是來源記憶測試，以及要求從他人帶情緒的情況中辨認對方感受的多面同理測試。利用潛在特徵迴歸分析，來源記憶、項目記憶、及猜測按多項歷程樹狀模式被分拆出來，用於檢驗各自與情緒辨認的關聯。與假定相符，情緒辨認與來源記憶有正相關，與項目記憶及猜測則沒有。當控制年紀、性別和教育水平等變量後，這種關聯仍然顯著。是次研究發現支持來源記憶於情緒辨認中的重要性。LO, Pak Kwan.M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2021.Includes bibliographical references (leaves )Abstracts in English and Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on ...