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Some long‐term effects of emotion on cognition
Author(s) -
Moore Simon C.,
Oaksford Mike
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1348/000712602760146341
Subject(s) - psychology , mnemonic , cognition , task (project management) , mood , cognitive psychology , association (psychology) , term (time) , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , neuroscience , physics , management , quantum mechanics , economics
This study explored the long‐term effects of emotion on cognition and over a 12‐day period. Two divergent tasks were employed: a word association task and a visual learning task. Over the initial 4 days of the study, participants went through a mood‐induction procedure then subsequently completed both tasks. Both tasks showed a reduction in reaction time consistent with the power law of learning across the first 4 consecutive days, and there was no significant change in reaction time between day 4 and day 5 (1 week later), suggesting that the change in reaction time was robust. The slopes of the power curves are discussed in relation to attentional and mnemonic systems that may underlie the observed differences in the exponents of the power curves by emotion group.