Mood and memory.
@article{Bower1981MoodAM, title={Mood and memory.}, author={Gordon H. Bower}, journal={The American psychologist}, year={1981}, volume={36 2}, pages={ 129-48 } }
This article describes experiments in which happy or sad moods were induced in subjects by hyp- notic suggestion to investigate the influence of emo- tions on memory and thinking. One result was that subjects exhibited mood-state-dependent memory in recall of word lists, personal experiences recorded in a daily diary, and childhood experiences; people recalled a greater percentage of those experiences that were affectively congruent with the mood they were in dur- ing recall. Second, emotion…
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