Is Mood Congruency an Effect of Genuine Memory or Response Bias?

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作者：

K Fiedler，S Nickel，T Muehlfriedel，C Unkelbach

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摘要：

Mood-congruent memory (i.e., enhanced memory for stimuli that match an individual's emotional state) can be explained as a genuine memory effect or as a heuristic response tendency (i.e., willingness to report memories that match one's current mood). The signal-detection framework was used to distinguish between these two interpretations. For this purpose, a mood-sensitive recognition test had to be developed in which initially masked test items appear gradually. Such degraded presentation invites knowledge-based, constructive inferences that are known to facilitate mood effects which are normally confined to recall measures. Two experiments demonstrate mood congruency in recognition. Signal-detection indices and response time analyses reveal that the influence of mood cannot be reduced to a heuristic response bias but reflects increased sensitivity for mood-congruent information. This finding is neither qualified by a speed–accuracy trade-off nor by the availability of semantic retrieval cues during recognition.

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关键词：

ambiguity knowledge judgments uncertainty decision making procedural knowledge explicit knowledge source monitoring

DOI：

10.1006/jesp.2000.1442

被引量：

108

年份：

2001