Negative Emotion Enhances Memory Accuracy

By Elizabeth A. Kensinger. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Prospective Relationship between Negative Affective Reactivity to Daily Stress and Depressive Symptoms (2011, background): “Therefore, there may have been some distortion in recollection of events confounded by current affective states (Kensinger, 2007; Marco & Suls, 1993).”
Source monitoring 15 years later: What have we learned from fMRI about the neural mechanisms of source memory? (2009, background): “But, there also is evidence that source memory for emotional information sometimes may be at least as accurate as, or more accurate than, neutral memories (for reviews of the behavioral evidence, see, e.g., Kensinger, 2007; Mather, 2007).”
The impact of emotions on service quality, satisfaction, and positive word-of-mouth intentions over time (2010, result): “…evidence from psychology support this finding, as behavioural and neuroimaging research has found that more intense negative emotions enhance the vividness of a memory and also increase the likelihood of recalling more details about an experience or event than positive emotions (Kensinger, 2007).”
Understanding Reading Anxiety: New Insights from Neuroscience (2010, background): “• Emotions serve to focus attention and organize recall and memory; children pay more attention to things with emotional significance and tend to remember details of emotionally powerful experiences (Kensinger 2007).”
Gamification: A cognitive-emotional view (2018, background): “The amygdala supports encoding, consolidation, and recollection of memories linked to emotional stimuli (Phelps, 2006), and negative valence emotion enhances memory accuracy (Kensinger, 2007).”
Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion (2009, background): “Based on the available evidence, my working hypothesis has been that arousal (and, as I will discuss later, arousal accompanying a negative emotion in particular) enhances memory for “intrinsic” item features but not “extrinsic” contextual details (see Kensinger, 2007; Kensinger & Schacter, 2006b).”