Memory for Specific Visual Details can be Enhanced by Negative Arousing Content.

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Of guns and geese: a meta-analytic review of the ‘weapon focus’ literature (2013, background): “Christianson & Hubinette, 1993 ; Kensinger, Garoff-Eaton, & Schacter, 2006 ), there are insufficient studies exploring how weapon presence influences the vividness of a criminal event to make any definitive determination at this time.”
Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion (2009, background): “Although research is moving us closer to understanding the effect of emotion on memory accuracy, there are still a number of fundamental questions that remain unanswered.”
Effects of Emotion on Memory Specificity: Memory Trade-Offs Elicited by Negative Visually Arousing Stimuli. (2007, methodology): “Keywords: Emotion; Arousal; Memory; Gist; Detail; Scenes; Trade-off; Central; Peripheral; Visual Individuals often believe that they remember negatively emotional experiences vividly (e.g., Dewhurst & Parry, 2000; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Ochsner, 2000), and at least some types of details are more ”
Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes (2008, methodology): “We therefore conducted a 2 (valence: negative, neutral) 2 (scene component: object, background) 2 (delay: 30 min, 12 hr combined) mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) on overall recognition (‘‘same’’ plus ‘‘similar’’ responses), after Kensinger et al. (2007). This analysis revealed a main effect of de”