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“Study 2 as conducted by Kesebir and Oishi had students first right down the names of ten of their friends. After that they were given another sheet of paper and told to write down the birthdays they could remember out of the friends they had written down if they thought they were reasonable accurate. In the last stage of the study, the participants were asked to look up their friends’ birthdays on their Facebook or MySpace accounts or their own personal computers to obtain the birthdays that they could not remember. Participants also wrote down their own birthdays like Study 1, and explicitly priming was controlled because participants were not asked for their birthday until the end. Study 2 as conducted in the Cognitive Psychology class was very similar. We were asked to take out a sheet of paper and write down the names of ten friends, then we were asked to write down their birthdays, and we took the sheets home to use our Facebook accounts to check on the birthdays. Then we wrote down our birthdays and returned the sheets to the instructor.
The studies are comparable in the procedure and in the results; see Figure 2. Females recalled more birthdays than males and both groups showed birthdays remembered were closer to their own. Because our Cognitive Psychology class has very few people compared to the Kesebir and Oishi study, there was no significance in the class study. Overall the results replicate the Study 1 results that people remember birthdays of others that are closer to their own, compared to people who have farther away birthdays. Study 2 eliminated some of the limitations of Study 1 because it showed that it wasn’t just the recall based on instructions or that participants just tend to have friends with close birthdays because they had friends listed with birthdays far away from their birthdays.”
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