Kuhbandner, Christof and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz and Stiedl, Fiona C. (2009) Retrieval-induced forgetting of negative stimuli: The role of emotional intensity. COGNITION & EMOTION, 23 (4). pp. 817-830. ISSN 0269-9931, 1464-0600
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Repeatedly retrieving a subset of previously studied items can cause forgetting of related non-retrieved material. We examined whether such retrieval-induced forgetting holds also for negative material. Participants studied neutral and negative stimuli and then repeatedly retrieved a subset of the neutral material. Later, a recall test was conducted in which participants were asked to recall all previously studied items. On average, retrieval practice on the neutral items caused the same amount of forgetting for neutral and negative items, indicating that the emotionality of material does not affect retrieval-induced forgetting. More detailed analysis, however, revealed that the forgetting of negative items decreased with both the emotional intensity of a negative item and the dispositional negative affectivity of a participant. The decreases in retrieval-induced forgetting may have been driven by item-specific processing of material, which is known to be enhanced for highly negative stimuli and participants high in dispositional negative affectivity and to reduce or even eliminate retrieval-induced forgetting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIES; WORDS; DETAILS; RECALL; Episodic memory; Emotion; Retrieval-induced forgetting; Material; Dispositional affectivity |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2020 06:49 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2020 06:49 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29694 |
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