APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Romantic Rejection: Effect on Memory and Desire to Belong

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Cognitive

  • Allan Schneider
    Butler University
  • Reyna Carrillo
    Butler University
  • Joseph Price
    Butler University
  • Amanda Hall
    Butler University

Abstract

700 Participants used a dating app simulator and requested a date and experienced different rejection conditions (comparative – rejected for another, inadequate – not good enough, and chance - busy that night).  Inadequate rejections resulted in the strongest retrograde recall, and increased likelihood to seek another relationship.

Memory

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