Data for: Guilty by association: Time-dependent memory consolidation facilitates the generalization of negative – but not positive – person memories to group and self judgments

Data files and SAS programs to accompany two experiments. The studies tested the hypotheses that over time, negative, but not positive, group information would generalize to other group members (Experiment 1) and to the self (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, participants learned personal information about two members of two groups. Two members of one group were associated with negative trait information, while two members of the other group were associated with positive trait information. Participants then made trait and evaluative judgments about members of both groups either at a short-delay or a long-delay test. In Experiment 2, participants learned positive and negative information about their ingroup and an outgroup. Participants then evaluated themselves on those traits either at a short-delay or a long-delay test.

本数据集包含配合两项实验使用的数据文件与SAS程序。两项实验均验证了如下假设：随着时间推移，负面而非正面的群体信息会被泛化至其他群体成员（实验1）以及自我身上（实验2）。实验1中，被试学习了两个群体各两名成员的个人信息：其中一个群体的两名成员被关联了负面特质信息，另一群体的两名成员则被关联了正面特质信息。随后，被试分别在短延迟测试或长延迟测试情境下，对两个群体的成员作出特质判断与评价性判断。实验2中，被试学习了关于自身所属内群体（ingroup）与外群体（outgroup）的正面及负面信息。随后，被试分别在短延迟测试或长延迟测试情境下，基于上述特质对自身进行评价。