Positive Affect Facilitates the Effect of a Warning on False Memory in the DRM Paradigm

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin, CECI, Stephen J., ISEN, Alice M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: positive affect; false memories; DRM paradigm; monitoring processing; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1564; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2821/viewcontent/PositiveAffectWarningFalseMemoryDRMparadigm_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Increasing evidence that positive affect enhances associative processing has lent weight to the idea that positive affect increases false memory for information that is thematically interrelated. Using the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm, we examined whether mild positive affect facilitates monito...