Recent studies suggest that emotional events, mood and personality characteristics influence people’s susceptibility to false memories. Additionally, many studies have demonstrated a gender differences in memory performance. This present study aims to examine if dispositional optimism or pessimism affect the creation of false memories and to determine if the effect is dependent on gender. Participants (N = 40) answered the Life orientation test-revised (LOT-R) which measures their dispositional optimism and pessimism. Then they watched an emotional video clip and answered a questionnaire about the video. The participants were encouraged to guess (confabulate) the answers to the questions if they did not remember the event. Participants were...
This study looks at the impact of stress on the creation of these false memories, using the Deese-Ro...
Previous studies indicate that certain personality traits have an effect on cognitive performance. T...
Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some conditions, emotio...
Recent studies suggest that emotional events, mood and personality characteristics influence people’...
Studies have shown that individuals experience memory errors both in real life and in experimental s...
Tilgangur þessarar rannsóknar var að skoða áhrif streitu og viðvörunar á myndun falskra minninga sem...
This study was a series of three experiments which examined the effects of gender stereotypes on the...
Previous research has shown that females have a better recall on emotional information compared to m...
Elaborating on misleading information concerning emotional events can lead people to form false memo...
Does a person´s self esteem contribute in the process of creating false memories? Previous studies s...
Elaborating on misleading information concerning emotional events can lead people to form false memo...
Previous studies on memory have shown that individuals remember emotional stimuli better than neutra...
<p>Abstract copyright data collection owner.</p>The data consist of SPSS files from eight experiment...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of emotion on false memory production. 118 ...
Optimism bias refers to the tendency to display unjustified high/low expectations of future positive...
This study looks at the impact of stress on the creation of these false memories, using the Deese-Ro...
Previous studies indicate that certain personality traits have an effect on cognitive performance. T...
Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some conditions, emotio...
Recent studies suggest that emotional events, mood and personality characteristics influence people’...
Studies have shown that individuals experience memory errors both in real life and in experimental s...
Tilgangur þessarar rannsóknar var að skoða áhrif streitu og viðvörunar á myndun falskra minninga sem...
This study was a series of three experiments which examined the effects of gender stereotypes on the...
Previous research has shown that females have a better recall on emotional information compared to m...
Elaborating on misleading information concerning emotional events can lead people to form false memo...
Does a person´s self esteem contribute in the process of creating false memories? Previous studies s...
Elaborating on misleading information concerning emotional events can lead people to form false memo...
Previous studies on memory have shown that individuals remember emotional stimuli better than neutra...
<p>Abstract copyright data collection owner.</p>The data consist of SPSS files from eight experiment...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of emotion on false memory production. 118 ...
Optimism bias refers to the tendency to display unjustified high/low expectations of future positive...
This study looks at the impact of stress on the creation of these false memories, using the Deese-Ro...
Previous studies indicate that certain personality traits have an effect on cognitive performance. T...
Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some conditions, emotio...