Car Alarms and AMBER Alerts: Do Repeated Alerts Impair Prospective Person Memory

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
William Blake Erickson ◽  
Christopher S. Peters ◽  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney ◽  
Amber Jean Culbertson-Faegre
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory ◽  
Amber Alerts

Reading About Persons: The Effects of Conjunctions on the Mental Representation of Person Descriptions

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt ◽  
Margret Wintermantel ◽  
Nadine Junker ◽  
Julia Kneer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Person Memory ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Single Person ◽  
On Line

Three experiments investigated the processing of person descriptions that consisted of a number of statements about the characteristics of a person. In one condition, each statement referred to a single person attribute and in the other condition, causal and additive conjunctions to verbally link the statements were introduced. Evidence was found that the introduction of verbal links enhanced participants’ memory about the characteristics of the described person. On-line measures of processing showed that the comprehension of person information was strongly facilitated by the introduction of verbal links. Furthermore, the results were due to the introduction of causal connections between person attributes. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for models of person memory and representation.

Situating person memory: When occupational categories match physical contexts

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Palma ◽  
Margarida Garrido ◽  
Gun Semin
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory

Prospective Person Memory for Missing Children and Associated Adults

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory ◽  
Missing Children

Type of Missing Child Case: The Effect on Prospective Person Memory

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney ◽  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
Christopher S. Peters ◽  
William Blake Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory

On the Lookout: Criminal Profile and the Success of Prospective Person Memory

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney ◽  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
William Blake Erickson ◽  
Christopher S. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory ◽  
Criminal Profile

Comparing caricature and anti-caricature effects on prospective person memory

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Blake Erickson ◽  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
Charlie Frowd ◽  
Christopher S. Peters ◽  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Person Memory

Stranger Danger

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Renfro
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Amber Alerts ◽  
Actual Figure ◽  
Stranger Danger ◽  
Murdered Children

Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a “national epidemic” of child abductions perpetrated by strangers. Some observers insisted that fifty thousand or more children fell victim to stranger kidnappings in any given year. (The actual figure was and remains about one hundred.) Stranger Danger demonstrates how racialized and sexualized fears of stranger abduction—stoked by the news media, politicians from across the partisan divide, bereaved parents, and the business sector—helped to underwrite broader transformations in US political culture and political economy. Specifically, the child kidnapping scare further legitimated a bipartisan investment in “family values” and “law and order,” thereby enabling the development and expansion of sex offender registries, AMBER Alerts, and other mechanisms designed to safeguard young Americans and their families from “stranger danger”—and to punish the strangers who supposedly threatened them.

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