Effects of emotion-induced self-focused attention on item and source memory

The relationship between risk perception of COVID-19 and willingness to help: A moderated mediation model

“…As we know, the helpers must pay attention to help signals from others before generating the willingness to help ( Eisenberg, 2014 ). With negative emotions, individuals may focus more on themselves and less on others ( Jeon et al, 2020 , Salovey, 1992 ). Due to the negative sense of interpersonal alienation, it is not easy for individuals to recognize help signals from others which may hinder the willingness to help.…”

Effects of congruent emotional contexts during encoding on recognition: An ERPs study

“…Prior studies on how emotional context affects memory when it is presented alongside the target stimuli have yielded inconsistent results (Minor & Herzmann, 2019). Many of these studies indicate that emotion either has no effect on recognition memory, with insignificant differences between items encoded in emotional and neutral contexts (Bowen & Kensinger, 2017, Bowen et al., 2018; Cui et al., 2016; Jaeger et al., 2009; Jeon et al., 2020; Maratos & Rugg, 2001, the results in Experiments 1; Pereira et al., 2021; Smith et al., 2004), or that it boosts recognition memory, with improved performance for items encoded in emotional contexts compared to neutral ones (Macri et al., 2018, 2020; Smith et al., 2005, 2006; Ventura‐Bort et al., 2017). Yet, some studies suggest that emotion can impair recognition performance (Jia, Gao, Wang, et al., 2020, the results in Experiments 2; Maratos & Rugg, 2001, the results in Experiments 2; Ventura‐Bort et al., 2016, 2020; Zhang et al., 2015; Zlomuzica et al., 2016).…”