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Original Articles

The role of emotion on the recall of central and peripheral information from script-based text

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Pages 76-94 | Received 07 Jun 2013, Accepted 17 Feb 2014, Published online: 13 Mar 2014
 

Abstract

In three experiments, script-based stories were used to provide thematic emotion. Consistent with past research expressing emotion thematically, emotion aided recall of both central and peripheral information. However, emotion had to be directly associated with the central or peripheral information, and emotion only facilitated memory for peripheral information when peripheral information alone was associated with the emotion. Emotion did not aid overall recall of stories. Positive and negative emotions were generally better recalled when they were incongruent with the information they were associated with, such as a positive emotion associated with an interruptive action. These results provide evidence that thematically expressed, low arousal emotion can have facilitative effects on memory. Implications for the role of emotion on memory are discussed.

Portions of this research were presented at the meetings of the Association for Psychological Science (2012), Chicago, IL, and the International Society for Research on Emotion (2013), Berkeley, CA.

Portions of this research were presented at the meetings of the Association for Psychological Science (2012), Chicago, IL, and the International Society for Research on Emotion (2013), Berkeley, CA.

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