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- Title
Memory for thematically arousing events.
- Authors
Laney, Cara; Campbell, Hannah V.; Heuer, Friderike; Reisberg, Daniel
- Abstract
Many studies have indicated that emotional arousal improves memory for the center, or gist, of an event but undermines memory for the event's periphery. However, all of these studies have elicited emotion by showing participants some salient visual stimulus intended to arouse them (e.g., the sight of a wound). This stimulus may have sewed as an attention magnet, and this, not the arousal, may have been the cause of the observed narrowing of memory In this article, we examine how participants remember events that involve thematically induced arousal, arousal produced by empathy, rather than by a visual emotional stimulus. The data show that emotionality improves memory for all aspects of these events, with no memory narrowing.
- Subjects
SOCIAL psychology; EMOTIONS; CONDITIONED response; SELF-expression; MEMORY; BEHAVIOR
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 7, p1149
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03196888