An Heuristic for the Study of the Effects of Emotion on Memory

Whissell, Cynthia

doi:10.2466/pms.1991.72.1.3

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“…Thus, we strongly recommend that future investigators in this area collect and publish, or at least keep for future use, vital information about their research needed for synthesizing data across studies. Such data should include information needed to clearly characterize the study participants (e.g., age, age of first depressive episode, subtype of depression, medication status, health status; Reynolds, Lebowitz, & Kupfer, 1993); details needed to specify task variables at the encoding phase (e.g., types of materials used, encoding activity encouraged), interphase (e.g., how long between encoding and retrieval, what activity was interpolated), and test phase (e.g., recall vs. recognition); and comprehensive statistical results (e.g., intertask correlations, means, and standard deviations) (Ingram & Reed, 1986; Whissell, 1991).…”

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Depression and memory impairment: A meta-analysis of the association, its pattern, and specificity.

Burt¹,

Zembar²,

Niederehe³

1995

Psychological Bulletin

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517

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The existing evidence paints an unclear picture of whether an association exists between depression and memory impairment. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether depression is associated with memory impairment, whether moderator variables determine the extent of this association, and whether any obtained association is unique to depression. Meta-analytic techniques were used to synthesize data from 99 studies on recall and 48 studies on recognition in clinically depressed and nondepressed samples. Associations between memory impairment and other psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, dementia) were also examined. A significant, stable association between depression and memory impairment was revealed. Further analyses indicated, however, that it is likely that depression is linked to particular aspects of memory, the linkage is found in particular subsets of depressed individuals, and memory impairment is not unique to depression.

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Depression and memory impairment: A meta-analysis of the association, its pattern, and specificity.

Burt¹,

Zembar²,

Niederehe³

1995

Psychological Bulletin

806

517

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Memory for Words in a Serial List as a Function of Primacy-Recency, Frequency, Length, Order, and Location in a Two-Dimensional Emotional Space

Paul

Whissell

1992

Percept Mot Skills

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Two emotional dimensions (evaluation, activation) were used along with serial position, word frequency, word length, and word order as independent variables in a serial list recall task with 36 words ( N = 30 subjects). All variables were significantly related to recall in some fashion. Pleasant or unpleasant, active, short, common words in a primary or recency position were best recalled. Serial position was associated with the strongest significant main effect (η = .41), while activation, order, frequency, and length led to significant main effects of approximately equal strength (average η = .24). A number of significant two-way interactions among independent variables highlighted the complex manner in which these variables affect recall.

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Memory Disadvantages for Cvc Associates of Emotional Words

Contini

Whissell

1992

Percept Mot Skills

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An Heuristic for the Study of the Effects of Emotion on Memory

Abstract: This report contains an heuristic (a systematic set of questions) addressing issues of concern in the emotion-memory literature. Four experiments (ns of 73, 24, 160, and 34) are described in terms of the heuristic and its potential for describing the literature is examined.

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Depression and memory impairment: A meta-analysis of the association, its pattern, and specificity.

Depression and memory impairment: A meta-analysis of the association, its pattern, and specificity.

Memory for Words in a Serial List as a Function of Primacy-Recency, Frequency, Length, Order, and Location in a Two-Dimensional Emotional Space

Memory Disadvantages for Cvc Associates of Emotional Words

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