title: The effect of mood on false memory for emotional DRM word lists.
abstract: In the present study, we investigated the effect of participants' mood on true and false memories of emotional word lists in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. In Experiment 1, we constructed DRM word lists in which all the studied words and corresponding critical lures reflected a specified emotional valence. In Experiment 2, we used these lists to assess mood-congruent true and false memory. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three induced-mood conditions (positive, negative, or neutral) and were presented with word lists comprised of positive, negative, or neutral words. For both true and false memory, there was a mood-congruent effect in the negative mood condition; this effect was due to a decrease in true and false recognition of the positive and neutral words. These findings are consistent with both spreading-activation and fuzzy-trace theories of DRM performance and have practical implications for our understanding of the effect of mood on memory.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Harlene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hayne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: DRM paradigm; False memories; emotional word lists; mood and memory