Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)

Examining the Relationship Between Positive Emotion and Memory Accuracy

Authors
Haofei Song1, *
1School of Art and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 08854, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: hs900@rutgers.ed
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Haofei Song
Available Online 11 July 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_129How to use a DOI?
Keywords
emotion; positive emotion; affect; memory; memory accuracy
Abstract

There are many discussions about whether emotions affect general learning abilities, especially the memory part. There are several pieces of research have successfully proved that emotional memories contain more accurate details than nonemotional memories do, especially negative emotions. This paper focuses more on whether positive emotion can successfully increase people’s memory accuracy on verbal memories. This paper responds to this question by proposing a method of manipulating emotion and testing people’s memory accuracy under certain emotions. This paper gives evidence suggesting that positive emotion wouldn’t increase people’s memory accuracy as we thought. There is only a slight difference in memory accuracy between positively emotionally stimulated people and neutrally emotionally stimulated people, and we can’t prove that emotional cues help to increase memory retrieving accuracy.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 July 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-062-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_129How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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