Affect and impression formation: Influence of mood on person memory

Author(s): Lam, W. F.

Journal/Book: J Exp Soc Psychol. 1995; 31: 525B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495. Academic Press Inc Jnl-Comp Subscriptions. 437-464.

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of mood on person memory. Subjects in a happy, sad, or neutral mood read impression congruent, incongruent, and irrelevant behavioral information about a target person and were later asked to recall as many of the behaviors as they could. In both experiments, only Ss in a neutral mood recalled impression-incongruent information at a higher probability than congruent information, replicating previous person memory research. However, neither happy nor sad subjects showed a recall advantage for incongruent information. These results suggest that induced affect apparently disrupted the type of elaborative processing necessary to produce the incongruency effect.

Note: Article AG Asuncion, San Jose State Univ, Dept Psychol, 1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192 USA

Keyword(s): POSITIVE AFFECT; SOCIAL-BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION; PERSUASION; RECALL; ACCESSIBILITY; DEPRESSION; COGNITION; MEDIATION; RETRIEVAL

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