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August 26, 2025Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

EXPRESS: Comparison of Emotional and Neutral False Memories at Short- and Long-Term Tests

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EMElizabeth M. MarshDMDawn M. McBride

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Overview

Experimental analysis reveals differences in false memory effects between emotional and neutral stimuli, indicating attention's role.

Key Points

  • Negative emotional lists resulted in significant false memories at short delays, highlighting emotional impact.
  • Recognition tests showed all list types produced significant false memories over longer delays with varied attention.
  • Experiments utilized the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, manipulating attention during encoding and retrieval.
  • Findings support activation-monitoring framework and fuzzy trace theory, offering new insights into memory processes.

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Marsh et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af63e3ad7bf08b1eae41fdhttps://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251376336
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