Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?
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Memory enhancement for emotional words: are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?
Individuals are more likely to remember negative information than neutral information. In the experiments reported here, we examined whether individuals were also more likely to remember details of the presentation of negative words, as compared with neutral words. In Experiment 1, the remember-know procedure was used to examine the effect of emotion on the vividness of an individual's memory, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03195800