Examining the Relationship Between Positive Emotion and Memory Accuracy
- 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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TY - CONF AU - Haofei Song PY - 2023 DA - 2023/07/11 TI - Examining the Relationship Between Positive Emotion and Memory Accuracy BT - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1002 EP - 1011 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_129 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_129 ID - Song2023 ER -