Abstract

Does the tendency to adjust appraisals of ourselves in the past and future in order to maintain a favourable view of ourselves in the present require episodic memory? A developmental amnesic person with impaired episodic memory (HC) was compared with two groups of age-matched controls on tasks assessing the Big Five personality traits and social competence in relation to the past, present and future. Consistent with previous research, controls believed that their personality had changed more in the past 5 years than it will change in the next 5 years (i.e. the end-of-history illusion), and rated their present and future selves as more socially competent than their past selves (i.e. social improvement illusion), although this was moderated by self-esteem. Despite her lifelong episodic memory impairment, HC also showed these biases of temporal self-appraisal. Together, these findings do not support the theory that the temporal extension of the self-concept requires the ability to recollect richly detailed memories of the self in the past and future.

中文翻译：

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没有记忆也能变得更好。

 抽象的

为了在当下保持对自己有利的看法而调整对自己过去和未来的评价的倾向是否需要情景记忆？将情景记忆（HC）受损的发育性遗忘症患者与两组年龄匹配的对照组进行比较，以评估与过去、现在和未来相关的大五人格特征和社交能力。与之前的研究一致，对照组认为他们的性格在过去 5 年中的变化比未来 5 年的变化要大（即历史终结幻觉），并且认为现在和未来的自己比现在的自己更有社会能力。他们过去的自我（即社会改善幻觉），尽管这是受到自尊的调节。尽管她一生都患有情景记忆障碍，但 HC 也表现出了这些时间自我评价的偏差。总之，这些发现并不支持这样的理论：自我概念的时间延伸需要有能力回忆起过去和未来的自我的丰富详细记忆。