Updating social knowledge via episodic memory prediction errors.
Impressions of other individuals—central components of our social schemas—are crucial for predicting how they will behave in social interactions. In some of these interactions, these predictions align with the way an individual behaves, but in other situations, the individual behaves in ways that co...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 669 - 686 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2026
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