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The impact of Eysenck's extraversion‐introversion personality dimension on prospective memory
Author(s) -
Heffernan Thomas,
Ling Jonathan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00243
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , prospective memory , personality , eysenck personality questionnaire , retrospective memory , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , big five personality traits , cognition , episodic memory , psychiatry , explicit memory
Prospective memory (PM) is memory for future events. PM is a developing area of research (e.g., Brandimonte, Einstein & McDaniel, 1996) with recent work linking personality types and their utilisation of PM (Goschke & Kuhl, 1996; Searleman, 1996). The present study compared 28 extraverts and 28 introverts on their short‐ and long‐term prospective memory using the Prospective Memory Scale developed by Hannon, Adams, Harrington, Fries‐Dias & Gibson (1995). The main finding was that extraverts reported significantly fewer errors on short‐ and long‐term PM than introverts, and this difference could not be explained in terms of the number of strategies used to support prospective remembering. These findings are discussed in relation to differences between the personality types.