Effects of Valence and List Composition on Memory Predictions, Performance, and Beliefs.

It is generally well known that emotion can benefit memory; however, much less is known about how emotion influences metamemory. The present study examined how list composition and emotion influence individuals' metamnemonic judgements and performance in a free recall task. Participants studied list...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 80; no. 3; pp. 188 - 208
Autores principales: MacMillan, Molly B., Churchill, Landon A., Hourihan, Kathleen L.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Canadian Psychological Association Sep2026
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196143373&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 196143373
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        11961961
        CJX
      jtl: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale
      issn: 11961961
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Sep2026
      vid: 80
      iid: 3
      pid: 98
      pub: Canadian Psychological Association
    artinfo:
      ui:
        196143373
        10.1037/cep0000397
      ppf: 188
      ppct: 20
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 726KB
      tig:
        atl: Effects of Valence and List Composition on Memory Predictions, Performance, and Beliefs.
      aug:
        au:
          MacMillan, Molly B.
          Churchill, Landon A.
          Hourihan, Kathleen L.
        affil: Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
      su:
        Canada
        Undergraduates
        Emotions
        Memory
        Analysis of variance
        Judgment (Psychology)
        Cognition
        Statistical power analysis
        Repeated measures design
        Pearson correlation (Statistics)
        Research funding
        T-test (Statistics)
        Data analysis
        Questionnaires
        Descriptive statistics
        Experimental design
        Statistics
        Comparative studies
      sug:
        subj:
          Undergraduates
          Emotions
          Memory
          Analysis of variance
          Judgment (Psychology)
          Cognition
          Canada
          Statistical power analysis
          Repeated measures design
          Pearson correlation (Statistics)
          Research funding
          T-test (Statistics)
          Data analysis
          Questionnaires
          Descriptive statistics
          Experimental design
          Statistics
          Comparative studies
      keyword:
        emotion
        judgements of learnings
        metamemory
        recall
        émotion
        jugements d'apprentissage
        métamémoire
        rappel
        emotion
        judgements of learnings
        metamemory
        recall
        émotion
        jugements d'apprentissage
        métamémoire
        rappel
      ab: It is generally well known that emotion can benefit memory; however, much less is known about how emotion influences metamemory. The present study examined how list composition and emotion influence individuals' metamnemonic judgements and performance in a free recall task. Participants studied lists of words that varied in emotional valence and made immediate judgements of learning after each word. Valence was manipulated in a mixed-list design in Experiment 1, a pure-list design in Experiment 2, and in a mixed- versus pure-list design in Experiment 4; arousal was held constant. We expected that the relative influence of emotion on metamemory would depend on participants' beliefs about how emotion influences memory and that these beliefs would be more salient in a mixed-list than pure-list design. Consistent with this, emotional words were given higher judgements of learnings than neutral words in Experiments 1 and 4, but not in Experiment 2. Posttest questionnaires (Experiments 1 and 2) and data collected from a naïve participant sample (Experiment 3) indicated that participants believed that emotional words are more memorable than nonemotional words. These results suggest that list structure influenced the degree to which judgements of learnings were responsive to emotional content.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N