Baeuml, Karl-Heinz and Kuhbandner, Christof (2007) Remembering can cause forgetting - but not in negative moods. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 18 (2). pp. 111-115. ISSN 0956-7976,
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Repeated retrieval of a subset of previously observed events can cause forgetting of the nonretrieved events. We examined how affective states experienced during retrieval modulate such retrieval-induced forgetting by inducing positive, negative, and neutral moods in subjects immediately before they attempted to retrieve studied items. On the basis of recent work, we hypothesized that positive moods encourage relational processing, which should increase interference from related events and thus enhance retrieval-induced forgetting. By contrast, negative moods should encourage item-specific processing, which should reduce interference and thus reduce such forgetting. Our results are consistent with these predictions. When subjects were in negative moods, repeated retrieval did not cause forgetting of the nonretrieved material, whereas when subjects were in positive and neutral moods, they showed reliable retrieval-induced forgetting. Our findings suggest that the emotions involved during interrogation of a witness can affect the result of repeated interrogations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | EYEWITNESS-MEMORY; FALSE MEMORIES; RETRIEVAL; DISTINCTIVENESS; INFORMATION; MECHANISMS; RECALL; HAPPY; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2020 05:54 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2020 05:54 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/33262 |
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