Stress strengthens memory of first impressions of others' positive personality traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lass Hennemann, Johanna ^a   Kuehl, Linn K ^a   Schulz, André ^a   Oitzl, Melly S ^b   Schachinger, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PLESIOMORPHY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; RECALL;

ADULT; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551563600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016389     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Todorov A, Gobbini MI, Evans KK, Haxby JV (2007) Spontaneous retrieval of affective person knowledge in face perception. Neuropsychologia 45: 163-173.
2. Uleman JS, Blader S, Todorov A (2005) Implicit Impressions. In: Hassin R, Uleman JS, Bargh JA, eds. The new unconscious. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Carlston DE, Skowronski JJ (1994) Savings in the relearning of trait information as evidence for spontaneous inference generation. J Pers Soc Psychol 66: 840-856.
4. Roozendaal B (2002) Stress and memory: opposing effects of glucocorticoids on memory consolidation and memory retrieval. Neurobiol Learn Mem 78: 578-595.
5. de Quervain DJ, Aerni A, Schelling G, Roozendaal B (2009) Glucocorticoids and the regulation of memory in health and disease. Front Neuroendocrinol 30: 358-370.
6. Hamilton DL, Driscoll DM, Worth LT (1989) Cognitive organization of impressions: effects of incongruency in complex representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57: 925-939.
7. Hamilton DL, Katz LB, Leirer VO (1980) Cognitive representation of personality impressions: Organizational processes in first impression formation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39: 1050-1063.
8. Hastie R, Kumar PA (1979) Person memory: personality traits as organizing principles in memory for behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37: 25-38.
9. Srull TK, Wyer RS (1989) Person memory and judgement. Psychological Review 96: 58-83.
10. Wyer RS, Bodenhausen GV, Srull TK (1984) The cognitive representation of persons and groups and its effect on recall and recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 20: 445-469.
11. Hamlin JK, Wynn K, Bloom P (2007) Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature 450: 557-559.
12. Kuhlmeier V, Wynn K, Bloom P (2003) Attribution of dispositional states by 12- month-olds. Psychol Sci 14: 402-408.
13. Mitchell JP, Macrae CN, Banaji MR (2004) Encoding-specific effects of social cognition on the neural correlates of subsequent memory. J Neurosci 24: 4912-4917.
14. Mitchell JP, Neil Macrae C, Banaji MR (2005) Forming impressions of people versus inanimate objects: social-cognitive processing in the medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage 26: 251-257.
15. Todorov A, Olson IR (2008) Robust learning of affective trait associations with faces when the hippocampus is damaged, but not when the amygdala and temporal pole are damaged. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3: 195-203.
16. de Oliveira Alvares L, Engelke DS, Diehl F, Scheffer-Teixeira R, Haubrich J, et al. (2010) Stress response recruits the hippocampal endocannabinoid system for the modulation of fear memory. Learn Mem 17: 202-209.
17. Mitchell JP, Cloutier J, Banaji MR, Macrae CN (2006) Medial prefrontal dissociations during processing of trait diagnostic and nondiagnostic person information. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 1: 49-55.
18. Garcia R, Vouimba RM, Baudry M, Thompson RF (1999) The amygdala modulates prefrontal cortex activity relative to conditioned fear. Nature 402: 294-296.
19. McDonald AJ (1991) Organization of amygdaloid projections to the prefrontal cortex and associated striatum in the rat. Neuroscience 44: 1-14.
20. Roozendaal B, McReynolds JR, McGaugh JL (2004) The basolateral amygdala interacts with the medial prefrontal cortex in regulating glucocorticoid effects on working memory impairment. J Neurosci 24: 1385-1392.
21. Carlston DE, Skowronski JJ, Sparks C (1995) Savings in relearning: II. On the formation of behavior-based trait associations and inferences. J Pers Soc Psychol 69: 420-435.
22. Hager W, Hasselhorn (1994) Handbuch deutschsprachiger Wortnormen. Goettingen: Hogrefe.
23. Universität Leizpig (1998) Wortschatzportal Universität Leipzig.
24. Lovallo W (1975) The Cold Pressor Test and Autonomic Function: A Review and Integration. Psychophysiology 12: 268-282.
25. Schwabe L, Haddad L, Schachinger H (2008) HPA axis activation by a socially evaluated cold-pressor test. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33: 890-895.
26. Cahill L, Alkire MT (2003) Epinephrine enhancement of human memory consolidation: interaction with arousal at encoding. Neurobiol Learn Mem 79: 194-198.
27. Cahill L, Gorski L, Le K (2003) Enhanced human memory consolidation with post-learning stress: interaction with the degree of arousal at encoding. Learn Mem 10: 270-274.
28. Smeets T, Otgaar H, Candel I, Wolf OT (2008) True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol elevations and sympathetic activity at consolidation and retrieval. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33: 1378-1386.
29. Liu DL, Graham S, Zorawski M (2008) Enhanced selective memory consolidation following post-learning pleasant and aversive arousal. Neurobiol Learn Mem 89: 36-46.
30. Zorawski M, Killcross S (2002) Posttraining glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances memory in appetitive and aversive Pavlovian discrete-cue conditioning paradigms. Neurobiol Learn Mem 78: 458-464.
31. Peeters G, Czapinski J (1990) Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluations: The Distinction Between Affective and Informational Negativity Effects. European Review of Social Psychology 1: 33-60.
32. Skowronski JJ, Carlston DE (1989) Negativity and Extremety Biases in Impression Formation: A Review of Explanations. Psychological Bulletin 105: 131-142.
33. Maner JK, Kenrick DT, Becker DV, Robertson TE, Hofer B, et al. (2005) Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception. J Pers Soc Psychol 88: 63-78.
34. Maner JK, DeWall CN, Baumeister RF, Schaller M (2007) Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem". J Pers Soc Psychol 92: 42-55.
35. Taylor SE, Klein LC, Lewis BP, Gruenewald TL, Gurung RA, et al. (2000) Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-orflight. Psychol Rev 107: 411-429.
36. Neumann ID, Kromer SA, Toschi N, Ebner K (2000) Brain oxytocin inhibits the (re)activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in male rats: involvement of hypothalamic and limbic brain regions. Regul Pept 96: 31-38.
37. Neumann ID, Wigger A, Torner L, Holsboer F, Landgraf R (2000) Brain oxytocin inhibits basal and stress-induced activity of the hypothalamo-pituitaryadrenal axis in male and female rats: partial action within the paraventricular nucleus. J Neuroendocrinol 12: 235-243.
38. Guastella AJ, Mitchell PB, Mathews F (2008) Oxytocin enhances the encoding of positive social memories in humans. Biol Psychiatry 64: 256-258.