Cost avoidance underlies decisions to use prospective memory reminders.

Recent evidence suggests that offloading demands on to external sources can improve the remembering of future plans (i.e., prospective memory). The purpose of the current study was to better understand the mechanisms by which participants choose to offload prospective memory demands. Participants fo...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1785 - 1803
Main Authors:	Ball, B. Hunter, Peper, Phil
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2025
Subjects:	Task performance Exercise Episodic memory Consumer attitudes Decision making Distraction Punishment Time management Cognition Cost control Research funding Descriptive statistics Experimental design Intention Health care reminder systems
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