The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition

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ID21391900
AuthorsAmanda C G Hall (0000-0002-2952-3599, Department of Psychology Butler University Indianapolis IN USA, corresponding author), Daniel Evans (0000-0002-4484-7874, The Ohio State University), Daniel G Evans (Department of Psychology The Ohio State University Columbus OH USA), Lindsay Higginbotham (Department of Psychology Butler University Indianapolis IN USA), Kathleen S Thompson (Department of Psychology Butler University Indianapolis IN USA)
Year2020
Volume61
Issue3
Pages333-347
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScandinavian Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-5564 • E-ISSN: 1467-9450
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjop.12632
PMID32196673
OpenAlexW3010902172
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited68

We investigated whether the previously established effect of mood on episodic memory generalizes to semantic memory and whether mood affects metacognitive judgments associated with the retrieval of semantic information. Sixty‐eight participants were induced into a happy or sad mood by viewing and describing IAPS images. Following mood induction, participants saw a total of 200 general knowledge trivia items (50 open‐ended and 50 multiple‐choice after each of two mood inductions) and were asked to provide a metacognitive judgment about their knowledge for each item before providing a response. A sample trivia item is: Author – – To kill a mockingbird . Results indicate that mood affects the retrieval of semantic information, but only when the participant believes they possess the requested semantic information; furthermore, this effect depends upon the presence of retrieval cues. In addition, we found that mood does not affect the likelihood of different metacognitive judgments associated with the retrieval of semantic information, but that, in some cases, having retrieval cues increases accuracy of these metacognitive judgments. Our results suggest that semantic retrieval processes are minimally susceptible to the influence of affective state but does not preclude the possibility that affective state may influence encoding of semantic information

Affect (linguistics) · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Metacognition · Mood · Semantic memory · Communication · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Memory Processes and Influences · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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