Adolescence is a sensitive period for categorical self-concept development, which affects the ability to take others’ perspectives, which might differ from one’s own, and how self-related information is memorized. Little is known about whether these two processes are related in adolescence. The current study recruited 97 male participants aged 11–35 years. Using a self-referential memory task, we found that younger participants were less prone to recognize previously seen town-related adjectives, compared to self-related adjectives. However, this age-related reduction in recognition bias was unrelated to accurate memory performance. Using the Director task to assess perspective taking, we found an age-related decrease in egocentric biases in perspective taking from adolescence to early adulthood (i.e., perspective taking abilities improved with age). However, there was no evidence that these two processes were related. Overall, our findings suggest that male adolescents display parallel but independent age-related changes in self-referential biases in memory and perspective taking.

青春期是绝对自我概念发展的敏感时期，这会影响接受他人观点（可能与自己不同）的能力，以及如何记忆与自我相关的信息。关于这两个过程在青春期是否相关尚不清楚。目前的研究招募了 97 名年龄在 11-35 岁之间的男性参与者。通过自我参照记忆任务，我们发现与自我相关的形容词相比，年轻的参与者不太容易识别以前见过的与城镇相关的形容词。然而，这种与年龄相关的识别偏差减少与准确的记忆表现无关。使用导演任务来评估观点采择，我们发现从青春期到成年早期，观点采择中的自我中心偏见与年龄相关地减少（即，观点采择能力随着年龄的增长而提高）。然而，没有证据表明这两个过程是相关的。总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，男性青少年在记忆和观点采择方面的自我参照偏差方面表现出平行但独立的与年龄相关的变化。