title: Mood-congruent true and false memory: effects of depression.
abstract: The Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm was used to investigate the effect of depression on true and false recognition. In this experiment true and false recognition was examined across positive, neutral, negative, and depression-relevant lists for individuals with and without a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Results showed that participants with major depressive disorder falsely recognised significantly more depression-relevant words than non-depressed controls. These findings also parallel recent research using recall instead of recognition and show that there are clear mood congruence effects for depression on false memory performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. mark.howe@lancaster.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mark L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Malone
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012016:Reference Values; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014936:Word Association Tests; D055815:Young Adult