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September 20, 2025Primenjena psihologijaOpen Access

The Effects of Emotional Valence and Arousal in the Free Recall of Serbian Nouns

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KPKatarina ProtićMSMilica Popović Stijačić

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Overview

Incidental free recall task reveals emotional impacts on abstract and concrete words, suggesting implications for memory processing.

Key Points

  • Positive words were recalled better than negative ones across both abstract and concrete categories, indicating emotional influence.
  • Arousal significantly enhanced the recall of abstract negative words, revealing a nuanced effect of emotion in word memory.
  • The study involved 276 psychology students estimating various emotional metrics related to 64 Serbian nouns.
  • Results support the representational substitution hypothesis, emphasizing emotional experience in recalling abstract nouns.

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Protić et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46fcd31b076d99fa69d9ahttps://doi.org/10.19090/pp.v18i3.2598
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