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The Role of Summary and Specific Behavioral Memories in Trait Judgments about the Self

University of California, Santa Barbara

Judith Loftus

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jeffrey W. Sherman

University of California, Santa Barbara

In a recent series of studies, Klein and Loftus and their colleagues have shown that trait judgments about the self are uninfluenced by the prior retrieval of trait-relevant behavioral memories. In this article, two types of behavioral memories are distinguished-specific and summary. A study is reported that, in contrast to the authors' earlier studies examining the effect of specific behavioral memories, shows that retrieval of summary behavioral memories does affect subsequent judgments of a trait's self-descriptiveness. The implications of the distinction between spears and summary behavioral memories for models of trait self-knowledge are discussed.

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