2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effects of emotion on verbal overshadowing.
| Project/Area Number |
20730473
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAGAMI Shinji Nagoya University, 環境学研究科, 准教授 (00359879)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 記憶 / 目撃証言 / 顔の識別 / 言語陰蔽効果 / 言語化 |
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| Research Abstract |
The verbal overshadowing effect is the phenomenon in which describing a previously seen face impairs its recognition. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of negative emotion on verbal overshadowing. In order to induce negative emotions, half the participants were presented unpleasant pictures selected from the International Affective Pictures System at the beginning of the experiment. As a result, we found that verbal overshadowing occurred in the neutral emotion condition, but not in the negative emotion condition. The implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.
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