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A puzzle about affect and recognition memory
1983
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition
We describe an experiment that was designed to replicate an unpredicted and puzzling asymmetry found in the data of surprise recognition tests given in several earlier, unpublished experiments. In the present experiment, which used foils that were affective transformations of presented sentences, the affectively negative foils consistently produced a significantly higher rate of correct rejections than did the positive foils. This effect occurred in the absence of a difference in hit rates
doi:10.1037/0278-7393.9.4.725
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