自動的処理と統制的処理とにおける気分一致効果 : 記憶負荷のある場合とない場合との比較

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The patterns of the mood-congruent memory and the mood-congruent judgment effect in automatic and controlled processing were investigated. In this experiment, participants were induced with music into either of positive, negative, or neutral mood states. They were sequentially presented with single words from a list of pleasant and unpleasant trait adjectives. They were then required to judge whether each word described themselves with or without the memory-load. After the task, they were given an incidental free recall test for five minutes. These results indicated that the mood-congruent memory effect was obtained only without memory-load (in controlled processing) in both positive and negative moods. In contrast, the mood-congruent judgment effect was obtained in neither of conditions. It is suggested that elaborative processing contributed to the self-referent encoding and that different processes of selective elaboration operated to produce the memory and judgment effects.