Dissociable effects of conscious emotion regulation strategies on explicit and implicit memory.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
The authors manipulated emotion regulation strategies at encoding and administered explicit and implicit memory tests. In Experiment 1, participants used reappraisal to enhance and decrease the personal relevance of unpleasant and neutral pictures. In Experiment 2, decrease cues were replaced with suppress cues that directed participants to inhibit emotion-expressive behavior. Across experiments, using reappraisal to enhance the personal relevance of pictures improved free recall. By contrast, attempting to suppress emotional displays tended to impair recall, especially compared to the enhance condition. Using reappraisal to decrease the personal relevance of pictures had different effects depending on picture type. Paired with unpleasant pictures, the decrease cue tended to improve recall. Paired with neutral stimuli, the decrease cue tended to impair recall. Emotion regulation did not affect perceptual priming. Results highlight dissociable effects of emotion regulation on explicit and implicit memory, as well as dissociations between regulation strategies with respect to explicit memory.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Dillon, DG; Ritchey, M; Johnson, BD; LaBar, KS
Published Date
- May 2007
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 7 / 2
Start / End Page
- 354 - 365
PubMed ID
- 17516813
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1931-1516
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1528-3542
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.354
Language
- eng