This replicates the findings of Rose Cooper and Maureen Ritchey in young adults and shows that their results remain stable across the lifespan.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-022-01291-5 (9/9)

Whether you’re young or old, you use the gist of the situation to judge how vividly and confidently you remember. (8/9)

Older adults did perform more poorly on memory tasks, but the relationship between subjective memory experience and objective memory performance remained stable throughout life. (7/9)

Next, people were asked to rate how vivid their memory was and how confident they were about their memory. Finally, we tested whether people can remember the visual details of the event’s three elements. (6/9)

At test, people were shown a theme word and asked to remember the event that made up the story. First, we tested whether they remember which person, object and place were a part of the event, choosing between four options. (5/9)

People generated a meaningful story containing three elements (person, place and object) and a theme (e.g. “Party”). (4/9)

Subjective memory experience can be thought of as the ability to reexperience the memory in our mind’s eye and a sense of confidence about the accuracy of our memories. (3/9)

The way we reminisce changes across the lifespan. But in what way does healthy aging affect the relationship between memory performance and subjective memory experience? (2/9)

The first paper of my PhD is out! See our findings in the thread below
https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/10/1/116195/200614/The-Relationship-Between-Subjective-Memory
(co-authors @chrismbird.bsky.social @flaviadielle.bsky.social @samberens.bsky.social @maureenritchey.bsky.social) (1/9)