Retrieval-induced forgetting does not occur for emotional stimuli

Does retrieval-induced forgetting occur for emotional stimuli?

Cognition & Emotion ◽

10.1080/02699930802285221 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 1056-1068 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Lars Dehli ◽

Tim Brennen

Keyword(s):

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Induced Forgetting

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The effects of rumination and emotional stimuli on retrieval-induced forgetting

The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association ◽

10.4992/pacjpa.79.0_1ev-045 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 79 (0) ◽

pp. 1EV-045-1EV-045

Author(s):

Hideki Sato ◽

Yui Kaneko ◽

Haruna Suyama ◽

Risa Ito ◽

Koyo Higami ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Induced Forgetting

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Emotions Under the Skin

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000147 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 161-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Catarina Silva ◽

Ana Cláudia Ferreira ◽

Isabel Soares ◽

Francisco Esteves

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

The Other ◽

Regulatory Function ◽

Physiological Reactivity ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Skin Conductance Responses ◽

Lower Accuracy ◽

Emotional Pictures ◽

Valence And Arousal

Abstract. The present study examined physiological reactivity to emotional stimuli as a function of attachment style. Skin conductance responses (SCRs) and heart rate (HR) changes were simultaneously recorded while participants engaged in a visual attentional task. The task included positive, neutral, and negative emotional pictures, and required the identification of a target (neutral picture rotated 90° to the left or right), among a stream of pictures in which an emotional distracter (positive or negative) was presented. Participants additionally rated each of the emotional distracters for valence and arousal. Behavioral results on the attentional task showed that positive pictures facilitated overall target detection for all participants, compared to negative and neutral pictures, and that anxiously attached participants had significantly lower accuracy scores, relative to the other groups. Affective ratings indicated that positive pictures were rated as being more pleasant than negative ones, although no differences were found in HR changes to picture valence. In contrast, negative pictures were evaluated as being highly arousing. Consistent with this, negative pictures elicited larger SCRs in both insecure anxious and avoidant groups, especially for the anxious while the secure group showed SCRs unaffected by stimuli’s arousal. Present results show that individuals with different attachment styles reveal distinct patterns of attentional bias, appraisal, and physiological reactivity toward emotionally arousing stimuli. These findings further highlight the regulatory function of the attachment system.

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The Reliability of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000040 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Rosalind Potts ◽

Robin Law ◽

John F. Golding ◽

David Groome

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Recognition Test ◽

Laboratory Tests ◽

The Other ◽

Clinical Factors ◽

Test Items ◽

T1 And T2 ◽

Test Materials ◽

Induced Forgetting

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) refers to the finding that the retrieval of an item from memory impairs the retrieval of related items. The extent to which this impairment is found in laboratory tests varies between individuals, and recent studies have reported an association between individual differences in the strength of the RIF effect and other cognitive and clinical factors. The present study investigated the reliability of these individual differences in the RIF effect. A RIF task was administered to the same individuals on two occasions (sessions T1 and T2), one week apart. For Experiments 1 and 2 the final retrieval test at each session made use of a category-cue procedure, whereas Experiment 3 employed category-plus-letter cues, and Experiment 4 used a recognition test. In Experiment 2 the same test items that were studied, practiced, and tested at T1 were also studied, practiced, and tested at T2, but for the remaining three experiments two different item sets were used at T1 and T2. A significant RIF effect was found in all four experiments. A significant correlation was found between RIF scores at T1 and T2 in Experiment 2, but for the other three experiments the correlations between RIF scores at T1 and T2 failed to reach significance. This study therefore failed to find clear evidence for reliable individual differences in RIF performance, except where the same test materials were used for both test sessions. These findings have important implications for studies involving individual differences in RIF performance.

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