Emotional Nuance Enhances Verbatim Retention of Written Materials.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have demonstrated that details of verbal material are retained in memory. Further, converging evidence points to a memory-enhancing effect of emotion such that memory for emotional events is stronger than memory for neutral events. Building upon this work, it appears likely that verbatim sentence forms will be remembered better when tinged with emotional nuance. Most previous studies have focused on single words. The current study examines the role of emotional nuance in the verbatim retention of longer sentences in written material. In this study, participants silently read transcriptions of spontaneous narratives, half of which had been delivered within a context of emotional expression and the other half with neutral expression. Transcripts were taken from selected narrat

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8236806 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature