Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-7-2026
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Matthew Reysen
Second Advisor
Nicholaas Prins
Third Advisor
Tossi Ikuta
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This present experiment investigated the encoding effect when creating or processing stories and pleasantness conditions for participants in both nominal and collaborative groups (dyads). A brief literature review explored the background on research done highlighting collaborative inhibition and story processing is included. Amongst nominal groups there was no significant difference between story processing and pleasantness conditions. However, participants in storytelling remembered more words than the participants in pleasantness conditions in collaborative groups. Furthermore, story processing dyads had no identifiable collaborative inhibition, rather supporting evidence to a robust collaborative facilitation. Potential reasons for this unique result are related to everyone’s expertise in storytelling, a synchronization of idiosyncratic retrieval strategies, or the encoding is so strong that one’s idiosyncratic techniques cannot be disrupted.
Recommended Citation
Keller, Brady, "Story Processing Eliminates Collaborative Inhibition" (2026). Honors Theses. 3383.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3383
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