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  • Title: A disruptive effect of bizarreness on memory for relational and contextual details of self-performed and other-performed acts.
    Author: Worthen JB, Wood VV.
    Journal: Am J Psychol; 2001; 114(4):535-46. PubMed ID: 11789339.
    Abstract:
    We examined recognition memory for relational and contextual details of bizarre and common acts that were either self-performed or performed by another. The results support previous findings that bizarreness disrupts memory for relational details and provide evidence that bizarreness also disrupts memory of the general context in which objects of actions occurred. The disruptive effects of bizarreness were found in memory for both self-performed and other-performed acts. Although parts of bizarre events are remembered well, information about the context in which the remembered part occurs and relationships among remembered parts are not remembered well.
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