The self and friend reference effects in episodic memory are maintained in older adults

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Experiment shows self-reference boosts memory in older adults, indicating friend-referencing also plays a role.

Self-referencing enhances memory retention, with older adults showing comparable effects to younger adults.
Younger and older participants both outperformed in self-referencing tasks, while friend-referencing also improved memory accuracy.
Recognition memory tasks assessed item and source memory accuracy, alongside metacognitive monitoring performance through confidence ratings.
Despite lower accuracy in older adults, self- and friend-referencing effects on memory retrieval remain strong.

Chirtop et al. (2025) studied this question.

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