title: On rejecting emotional lures created by phonological neighborhood activation.
abstract: The authors conducted 2 experiments to assess how phonologically related lures are rejected in a false memory paradigm. Some phonological lures were emotional (i.e., taboo) words, and others were not. The authors manipulated the presence of taboo items on the study list and reduced the ability to use controlled rejection strategies by dividing attention and forcing a short response deadline. The results converge on the idea that participants reduce false alarms to emotional lures by setting more stringent recognition criteria for these items based on their expected memorability. Additionally, emotional lures are less familiar than nonemotional lures because emotional lures have affective and semantic features that mismatch studied nonemotional items.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5501, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Starns
authors.forename: Gabriel I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Jason L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Marsh
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013609:Taboo; D014706:Verbal Learning