title: Interpretation training influences memory for prior interpretations.
abstract: Anxiety is associated with memory biases when the initial interpretation of the event is taken into account. This experiment examined whether modification of interpretive bias retroactively affects memory for prior events and their initial interpretation. Before training, participants imagined themselves in emotionally ambiguous scenarios to which they provided endings that often revealed their interpretations. Then they were trained to resolve the ambiguity in other situations in a consistently positive (n = 37) or negative way (n = 38) before they tried to recall the initial scenarios and endings. Results indicated that memory for the endings was imbued with the emotional tone of the training, whereas memory for the scenarios was unaffected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands. e.salemink@uva.nl
authors.forename: Elske
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Salemink
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hertel
authors.forename: Bundy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mackintosh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis