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Abstract:
Abstract: The effect of the type of emotionality of textual
material on recall was studied using a word-recall method.
Following a pleasant, unpleasant, or control story, words which
were either related or unrelated to the story and which varied in
type and intensity of emotionality, were presented to participants
to be rated for degree of relatedness to the prior story. Finally,
immediate incidental free recall of those words was obtained. For
all stories, words related to the relevant story type were recalled
better than unrelated words; relevant emotional words were recalled
better than neutral words; females recalled more words than males.
Other findings indicated emotional congruence, i.e.that type of
emotion had a selective effect on which words were recalled but no
overall effect of emotionality was observed. In a second series of
studies, the effect of physical arousal on the same paradigm was
studied. The series of studies was designed to extend our knowledge
of the memory for emotional events spearheaded by Cahill, Prins,
Wever, and McGaugh (1994).
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