Replicating the Positivity Effect in Picture Memory in Koreans: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Generalizability

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 748-754

  Kwon, Yookyung ^a   Scheibe, Susanne ^a   Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Tsai, Jeanne L ^a   Carstensen, Laura L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural research; emotional memory; positivity effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349269483     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016054     Document Type: Article

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