Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
Storm’s (2012) study suggests inhibition may promote this positivity effect by deterring negative memories from being retrieved. But it is not revealed there has a relationship between the retrieval-induced-forgetting Effect and the autobiographical memories emotion valence. On the other hand, the previous study’s participants recalled memories of specified emotion. Finally, the autobiographical recall was scored for each participant as the proportion of keywords that elicited an autobiographical memory of the appropriate valence. So In this study, we used the retrieval-induced forgetting paradigm and autobiographical memories free recall task, to measured individual differences in retrieval-induced forgetting and correlated that individual differences in the free recall of autobiographical memories. Participants who exhibited higher levels of retrieval-induced forgetting recalled significantly more positive memories.
