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Self-protecting motivation, indexed by self-threat, modifies retrieval-induced-forgetting and confidence in employment decision bias against out-group targets

Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2021-12, Vol.6 (1), p.77-77, Article 77 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Self-protecting motivation, indexed by self-threat, modifies retrieval-induced-forgetting and confidence in employment decision bias against out-group targets
  • Author: Liu, Shaohang ; Kent, Christopher ; Briscoe, Josie
  • Subjects: Asians ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Bias ; Cognitive Psychology ; Cognitive Tests ; College Students ; Decision Making ; Employment ; Ethnicity ; Experimental Psychology ; Experiments ; Humans ; Memory ; Mental Recall ; Metacognition ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Motivated cognition ; Motivation ; Neurosciences ; Original ; Original Article ; Psychology ; Recall (Psychology) ; Recruitment ; Retrieval-induced forgetting ; Scores ; Self Esteem ; Self-threat ; Stereotypes ; Systemic Racism ; Systemic Racism: Cognitive Consequences and Interventions
  • Is Part Of: Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2021-12, Vol.6 (1), p.77-77, Article 77
  • Description: Human memory is malleable by both social and motivational factors and holds information relevant to workplace decisions. Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) describes a phenomenon where retrieval practice impairs subsequent memory for related (unpracticed) information. We report two RIF experiments. Chinese participants received a mild self-threat manipulation (Experiment 2) or not (Experiment 1) before an ethnicity-RIF task that involved practicing negative traits of either in-group (Chinese) or an out-group (Japanese) target. After a subsequent memory test, participants selected their preferred applicant for employment. RIF scores correspond to forgetting of unpracticed positive traits of one target (Rp−) relative to the recall of practiced negative traits of the other target (Rp+). Enhanced forgetting of positive traits was found in both experiments for both targets. Across experiments, a significant target by threat interaction showed that target ethnicity modified RIF (an ethnicity-RIF effect). Inducing a self-protecting motivation enhanced RIF effects for the out-group (Japanese) target. In a subsequent employment decision, there was a strong bias to select the in-group target, with the confidence in these decisions being associated with RIF scores. This study suggests that rehearsing negative traits of minority applicants can affect metacognitive aspects of employment decisions, possibly by shaping the schemas available to the majority (in-group) employer. To disrupt systemic racism, recruitment practices should aim to offset a human motivation to protect one-self, when exposed to a relatively mild threat to self-esteem. Discussing the negative traits of minority applicants is a critical, and sensitive, aspect of decision-making that warrants careful practice. These data suggest that recruiting individuals should be reminded of their personal strengths in this context, not their vulnerabilities, to secure their decision-making for fairer recruitment practice.
  • Publisher: Cham: Springer International Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2365-7464
    EISSN: 2365-7464
    DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00334-w
    PMID: 34894308
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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