Will you make pets an integral part of your self? An exploration of the memory processing advantage of pet-related information

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2025.1378

Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (8): 1378-1390.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2025.1378

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Will you make pets an integral part of your self? An exploration of the memory processing advantage of pet-related information

XU Kepeng¹^,²^,³, CHEN Jiali¹, XUE Hong¹^,², OU Qianqian⁴, HAN Zhenhua¹, ZHANG Jijia¹^,²^,³, XU Yan⁵, ZHANG Shuyue¹^,²^,³()

¹Department of psychology, Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
²Guangxi College and University Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Applied Psychology, Guilin 541004, China
³Symbiosis Education Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
⁴School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
⁵Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology; National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University;Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Published:2025-08-25 Online:2025-05-22
Contact: ZHANG Shuyue E-mail:shuyuezh@126.com

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XU Kepeng, CHEN Jiali, XUE Hong, OU Qianqian, HAN Zhenhua, ZHANG Jijia, XU Yan, ZHANG Shuyue. (2025). Will you make pets an integral part of your self? An exploration of the memory processing advantage of pet-related information. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 57(8), 1378-1390.

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Figure 1. Experimental flow chart.

Figure 2. Experimental flow chart.

Figure 3. Waveforms of four types of information.

Figure 4. Topographic maps under four conditions.

Table 1 Include pets into self chi-square analysis

	Yes	No	χ²	p
Pet owner	92	74	17.65	?.001
Non-owner	54	112	17.65	?.001

Table 2 The correct recall rate of different reference types

	Non-owner		Pet owner
	total recall	R recall	total recall	R recall
Self	0.73±0.02	0.46±0.04	0.66±0.03	0.45±0.04
Mother	0.69±0.02	0.46±0.04	0.65±0.02	0.42±0.03
Pet	0.62±0.02	0.37±0.03	0.67±0.03	0.42±0.04
Semantic	0.60±0.03	0.37±0.04	0.58±0.03	0.34±0.04
Celebrity	0.65±0.03	0.35±0.04	0.57±0.04	0.31±0.04

Figure 5. A schematic diagram of the pet owner's self-structure.

Will you make pets an integral part of your self? An exploration of the memory processing advantage of pet-related information

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