Delighted and Distracted: Positive Affect Increases Priming for Irrelevant Information

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1474-1478

  Biss, Renée K ^a,b   Hasher, Lynn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Implicit memory; Inhibition; Positive affect; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REPETITION PRIMING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755205232     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023855     Document Type: Article

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