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A misleading feeling of happiness: metamemory for positive emotional and neutral pictures.

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Title: A misleading feeling of happiness: metamemory for positive emotional and neutral pictures.
Authors: Hourihan KL; a Department of Psychology , Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John's , Canada., Bursey E; a Department of Psychology , Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John's , Canada.
Source: Memory (Hove, England) [Memory] 2017 Jan; Vol. 25 (1), pp. 35-43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 16.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Journal Info: Publisher: Psychology Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9306862 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1464-0686 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09658211 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Memory Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Publication: Sussex : Psychology Press
Original Publication: Hove (UK) ; Hillsdale (USA) : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., c1993-
MeSH Terms: Happiness*, Emotions/*physiology , Judgment/*physiology , Metacognition/*physiology , Recognition, Psychology/*physiology, Humans ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Photic Stimulation
Abstract: Emotional information is often remembered better than neutral information, but the emotional benefit for positive information is less consistently observed than the benefit for negative information. The current study examined whether positive emotional pictures are recognised better than neutral pictures, and further examined whether participants can predict how emotion affects picture recognition. In two experiments, participants studied a mixed list of positive and neutral pictures, and made immediate judgements of learning (JOLs). JOLs for positive pictures were consistently higher than for neutral pictures. However, recognition performance displayed an inconsistent pattern. In Experiment 1, neutral pictures were more discriminable than positive pictures, but Experiment 2 found no difference in recognition based on emotional content. Despite participants' beliefs, positive emotional content does not appear to consistently benefit picture memory.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Metamemory; emotion; memory
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20151218 Date Completed: 20180222 Latest Revision: 20191210
Update Code: 20260130
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1122809
PMID: 26673959
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