Emmerdinger, Kathrin J. and Kuhbandner, Christof and Berchtold, Franziska (2018) Testing emotional memories: does negative emotional significance influence the benefit received from testing? COGNITION & EMOTION, 32 (4). pp. 852-859. ISSN 0269-9931, 1464-0600
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A large body of research shows that emotionally significant stimuli are better stored in memory. One question that has received much less attention is how emotional memories are influenced by factors that influence memories after the initial encoding of stimuli. Intriguingly, several recent studies suggest that post-encoding factors do not differ in their effects on emotional and neutral memories. However, to date, only detrimental factors have been addressed. In the present study, we examined whether emotionally negative memories are differentially influenced by a well-known beneficial factor: the testing of memories. We employed a standard cued recall testing-effect paradigm where participants studied cue-target pairs for negative and neutral target pictures. In a subsequent post-encoding phase, one third of the cue-target pairs were tested and one third restudied; the remaining third served as control pairs. After one week, memory for all cue-target pairs was tested. While replicating both the testing effect and the emotional enhancement effect, no differences between negative and neutral memories in the benefits received from testing and restudying were observed. Thus, it seems to be true that post-encoding factors do not influence emotional memories in any other way than neutral memories, even when they are beneficial.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RETRIEVAL; AROUSAL; Testing effect; emotional memory; negative emotions; emotional pictures; long-term memory |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik > Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2020 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2020 10:40 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/15383 |
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