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How Different Emotions Affect Semantic Memory

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.459How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Emotion induction; Positive emotion; Negative emotion; Semantic memory; Learning

Abstract

Emotions are ubiquitous in learning activities and are considered closely linked to school climate and classroom climate. However, the question of how these emotions may affect memory encoding and retrieval has not gained sufficient attention. Previous empirical studies focused more on emotional effects on episodic memory rather than semantic memory. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate the effect of induced different emotions on the encoding and retrieval of semantic memory. Fifty-seven participants who were still in the learning stages were randomly assigned to a positive group (attended to positive emotional video), a negative group (attended to negative emotional video), and a neutral group (attended to neutral pictures). They needed to encode and retrieve words under different emotions. Compared to the neutral group, positive and negative emotions can enhance the encoding and retrieval of semantic memory. The possible implications of this research can be used in school climate and classroom climate design.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lexuan Jiang
AU  - Yuqi Wang
AU  - Yaru Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Happy Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2655
EP  - 2661
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.459
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.459
ID  - Jiang2021
ER  -