The Emotional Harbinger Effect: Poor Context Memory for Cues That Previously Predicted Something Arousing

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 850-860

  Mather, Mara ^a   Knight, Marisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

affective associative memory; conditioning; proactive interference

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249122521     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014087     Document Type: Article

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