Suppression of Emotional and Nonemotional Content in Memory
- 6 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 17 (5), 441-447
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01725.x
Abstract
Two experiments utilized a think/no-think paradigm to examine whether cognitive control of memories differs depending on whether they contain information with negative or neutral emotional content. During a training phase, participants learned face-word pairs (Experiment 1) or face-picture pairs (Experiment 2). In a subsequent experimental phase, participants were shown faces and told to think of the items paired with some of the faces and to try not to think of the items paired with other faces. Finally, in a test phase, participants were again shown each face and asked to recall the item with which it had been paired previously. Results for both verbal (Experiment 1) and nonverbal (Experiment 2) items indicated that the facilitatory and inhibitory influences of cognitive control were larger for negative than neutral items.Keywords
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