Effects of induced elation-depression on the accessibility of memories of happy and unhappy experiences |
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Authors: | John D. Teasdale Robert Taylor Sarah J. Fogarty |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, England |
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Abstract: | Elated and depressed moods were induced in student volunteers on separate occasions. On each occasion they retrieved past real-life experiences associated to stimulus words presented. Subjects subsequently rated the experiences for happiness-unhappiness and pleasantness-unpleasantness on a third occasion in a neutral mood state. Extremely unhappy memories were significantly more likely to be retrieved in the depressed mood than in the elated mood. Extremely happy memories were significantly more likely to be retrieved in the elated mood than in the depressed mood. Measures of latency of retrieval showed a significant interaction between mood state and type of memory. The results confirm the generality of previous findings in suggesting an effect of mood state on the accessibility of different types of cognition. The results are considered in relation to mood as a context in contextual-specific encoding and retrieval, and in relation to models and treatment of clinical conditions. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to John D. Teasdale Department of Psychiatry University of Oxford The Warneford Hospital Oxford 0X3 7J England |
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