Sex differences in recollective experience for olfactory and verbal information.

Full Abstract

We examined recollective experience as a function of sex for olfactory and verbal information. In the first study, men and women studied a set of highly familiar odors with incidental or intentional encoding instructions. In the second study, participants were presented with a number of sentences. At recognition, participants indicated whether their positive response was based on conscious recollection (remembering), a feeling of familiarity (knowing), or guessing. The results indicated that recollection was higher among women than men, and that familiarity-based recognition was equally large across sex for both types of information.The finding that the sex-related experiential difference disappeared when controlling for verbal proficiency suggests that sex-related differences in activating verbal information play an important role for sex differences in recollective experience.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science B.V.

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Author information

Author/s: Larsson, Maria (M); Lövdén, Martin (M); Nilsson, Lars-Göran (LG);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Acta psychologica (Acta Psychol (Amst)), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 112 (issue 1) : pp 89-103

Dates: Created 2002/11/08; Completed 2003/02/13; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12423901, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Adult
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Recall

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