Betsy Sparrow

Summary

Affiliation: Columbia University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips
    Betsy Sparrow
    Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
    Science 333:776-8. 2011
  2. ncbi Unpriming: the deactivation of thoughts through expression
    Betsy Sparrow
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1009-19. 2006
  3. ncbi Clever hands: uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication
    Daniel M Wegner
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 85:5-19. 2003
  4. ncbi Vicarious agency: experiencing control over the movements of others
    Daniel M Wegner
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 86:838-48. 2004

Collaborators

  • Daniel M Wegner
  • Lea Winerman
  • Valerie A Fuller

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips
    Betsy Sparrow
    Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
    Science 333:776-8. 2011
    ..The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves...
  2. ncbi Unpriming: the deactivation of thoughts through expression
    Betsy Sparrow
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1009-19. 2006
    ..Experiment 5 found that each item of activated knowledge needs to be unprimed specifically, in that correctly answering 1 question does not reduce the knowledge bias in randomly answering another...
  3. ncbi Clever hands: uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication
    Daniel M Wegner
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 85:5-19. 2003
    ..In this paradigm, the answers were often attributed to the other...
  4. ncbi Vicarious agency: experiencing control over the movements of others
    Daniel M Wegner
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 86:838-48. 2004
    ..Such vicarious agency was not felt when the instructions followed the movements, and participants' own covet movement mimicry was not essential to the influence of previews on reported control...