Mood-congruent free recall bias in anxiety.

The present study evaluated the status of mood-congruent free recall bias in anxious individuals following incidental encoding of target words. In the first experiment, high trait anxiety individuals showed increased recall of threat-related information after an orienting task promoting lexical proc...

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Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Russo, R, Fox, E, Lynn, B, Nguyen-Van-Tam, D
Formáid: Journal article
Teanga:English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: 2001
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Achoimre:The present study evaluated the status of mood-congruent free recall bias in anxious individuals following incidental encoding of target words. In the first experiment, high trait anxiety individuals showed increased recall of threat-related information after an orienting task promoting lexical processing of target words. In a second experiment, both lexical and semantic orienting tasks were performed at study. In this experiment, anxious individuals displayed a mood-congruent recall bias only for target information processed at a lexical level. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.