CLINTON, N.Y. — Amelia Denney, a junior at Hamilton College, co-authored a paper with Hamilton Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Azriel Grysman. The article “Gender, experimenter gender and medium of report influence the content of autobiographical memory report” recently was published in the Journal Memory (http://www.tandfonline.com), according to a news release from the college. It reported the results of a study in which they examined the role of context in autobiographical memory narratives, specifically as it pertains to gender among emerging adults.

In the study, male and female participants were asked to report stressful events in their lives to an experimenter. Two context manipulations were used: the report method — verbal or typed, and the gender of the experimenter.

Among the results, Grysman and Denney found that when verbally reporting to women, men’s narratives were longer than for other any other context. They also noted that women’s narrative length did not vary by medium of report or conversational partner, but women used proportionally fewer internal state phrases when verbally reporting to men than when reporting to women.

Grysman and Denney concluded that their findings highlight the importance of methodological influences in autobiographical memory studies, in regard to both the context generated by experimental methods, and how gender differences are understood.

Denney, a Hispanic studies and neuroscience major at Hamilton, is a graduate of Waterville High School and the daughter of Martha Denney of Haverford, Pennsylvania, and Waterville, Maine, and Ewan Good, of Farmington, Maine.

Hamilton College is a selective residential college offering a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. Students are challenged to think, write and speak critically, creatively and analytically, so that upon graduation they may distinguish themselves in both their professions and their communities.

Memory publishes high quality papers in all areas of memory research, including experimental studies of memory (including laboratory-based research, everyday memory studies, and applied memory research), developmental, educational, neuropsychological, clinical and social research on memory.


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