COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory

Catégorie

Journal Article

Auteurs

Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Arnaud Witt, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin

Année

2022

Titre

COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory

Journal / Livre / Conférence

Evolutionary Psychology

Résumé

The Behavioral Immune System (BIS, Schaller & Park, 2011) is a defense system whose function is to protect against pathogen
exposure. Memory is an important component of this system (Fernandes et al., 2017). We investigated “contamination effects” in
memory in relation to COVID-19. Photographs of everyday objects were shown to adults (N=80) in the hands of either a healthy
or a contagious person who had contracted SARS-CoV-2. “Contaminated objects” were recalled better than “non-contaminated
objects” suggesting that a contamination effect in memory in humans is easily acquired in the absence of apparent visual cues of disease.

Issue

20

Volume

2

Pages

1-10

Mots-clés

COVID-19, pathogens, adaptive memory, behavioral immune system

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  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14747049221108929

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