Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?

By Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Suzanne Corkin. Memory & Cognition, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Memory for Specific Visual Details can be Enhanced by Negative Arousing Content. (2006, background): “Argembeau & Van der Linden, 2004; Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; MacKay et al., 2004), the spatial location of a word (D!”
Memory for emotional words in bilinguals: Do words have the same emotional intensity in the first and in the second language? (2010, background): “…Ruiter, & Kindt, 1999; Buchanan, Etzel, Adolphs, & Tranel, 2006; Dewhurst & Parry, 2000; Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001; Ferré, 2003; Kensinger, 2008; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Mathews & Barch, 2004, 2006; Phelps, LaBar, & Spencer, 1997; Rubin & Friendly, 1986; Thomas, 2006) and seem to capture…”
Overnight Therapy? The Role of Sleep in Emotional Brain Processing (2009, background): “Kensinger and Corkin (2003) described dissociable mechanisms for the encoding of emotional stimuli across these dimensions of valence and arousal.”
Emotional arousal does not enhance association-memory (2012, background): “If those elements coincide, association-memory is often enhanced (e.g., font color of a presented word; Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003, but see Davidson, McFarland, & Glisky, 2006).”
Just tell us what happened to you: autobiographical memory and seeking asylum (2012, background): “Other research (Brown & Kulik, 1977; D’Argembeau, Comblain & van der Linden, 2003; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Lanciano & Curci, 2011; MacKay & Ahmetzanov, 2005) suggests that people are able to remember not only the gist of the event, but also the contextual and peripheral details.”
Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion (2009, background): “…particularly pronounced for events that elicit arousal (e.g., Anderson, Yamaguchi, Grabski, & Lacka, 2006; Buchanan, Etzel, Adolphs, & Tranel, 2006; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Talmi & Moscovitch, 2004), and it is believed that the release of stress hormones may play an important role in modulating…”
Effects of Emotion on Memory Specificity: Memory Trade-Offs Elicited by Negative Visually Arousing Stimuli. (2007, background): “…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 likely to be remembered about negative items than about…”
Cross-Cultural Validation of a Memorable Tourism Experience Scale (MTES) (2014, background): “Memory researchers contended that individuals remember positive emotional events better than ordinary events that occurred equally long ago (Dewhurst and Parry 2000; Kensinger and Corkin 2003; Ochsner 2000).”
Frequency in lexical processing (2016, background): “Furthermore, words with negative valence as well as words with high arousal tend to be remembered better (Kensinger & Corkin, 2003), suggesting a qualitative advantage for the learning of emotion words.”
Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory (2011, positive): “…location, or visual details of emotionally arousing items than nonarousing items (D’Argembeau & Van der Linden, 2004; Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Kensinger, et al., 2006; MacKay & Ahmetzanov, 2005; MacKay et al., 2004; Mather et al., 2009; Mather & Nesmith, 2008;…”
“I’ll remember this!” Effects of emotionality on memory predictions versus memory performance (2010, background): “However, little research has examined the role that emotionality plays in memory monitoring, and most has focused on monitoring at retrieval via confidence judgments (Talarico & Rubin, 2003) and remember/know judgments (Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Ochsner, 2000; Sharot, Delgado, & Phelps, 2004).”
Stress, Cognition, and Human Performance: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework (2013, methodology): “During Kensinger and Corkin’s (2003) first experiment, subjects were exposed to a series of words that were coded as either neutral or negative. Moreover, these words were also rated for their level of arousal and valence. During a self-paced recognition task, subjects were asked whether they had a ”