Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?
Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?
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DOI：
10.3758/bf03195800
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Corkin, S
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作者：
Kensinger, EA;Corkin, S
人们更容易记住负面信息，而不是中性信息。在这里报告的实验中，我们研究了与中性词相比，个体是否也更容易记住消极词的细节。在实验1中，记住知道的程序被用来检查情绪对个人的记忆生动性的影响，显示记忆反应更频繁地分配给消极的词比中性词。在实验2中，使用了源记忆范式，再次发现了个体对消极词的记忆比对中性词的记忆更详细的证据。在实验3-6中，我们考察了效价和唤醒的相对贡献，发现这两个维度都增加了记忆信息的生动性（即，只有效价的项目和那些引起唤醒的项目比中性信息更好地记住），但对引起唤醒的单词的影响比那些只有效价的单词更大。结果支持定性的，以及定量的，记忆的好处，情绪，相比，中性的话。
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, showing that remember responses were more frequently assigned to negative words than neutral words. In Experiment 2, a source memory paradigm was used, and again, evidence that individuals' memories were more detailed for negative than for neutral words was found. In Experiments 3-6, we examined the relative contribution of valence and arousal, finding that both dimensions increased the vividness of remembered information (i.e., items with valence only and those that elicited arousal were better remembered than neutral information) but that the effect was greater for words that evoked arousal than for those with valence only. The results support a qualitative, as well as a quantitative, memory benefit for emotional, as compared with neutral, words.