Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Zimmerman, Carissa A.
Author's Email Address	zimmerman@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-07132010-153843
Title	Intentional Binding of Negative Items in Memory
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Colleen Kelley Committee Chair Ashby Plant Committee Member Michael Kaschak Committee Member Neil Charness Committee Member Robert Eklund University Representative
Keywords	Emotion Cued Recall Paired Associates Associative Memory Relational Memory
Date of Defense	2010-06-17
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Memory for individual negative items, such as words and pictures, is consistently superior to memory for individual neutral items; however, recent research has found that relational memory for pairs of negative items is not enhanced relative to their neutral counterparts. The current experiments investigated the boundary conditions for this lack of negative associative memory enhancement and repeatedly found that memory for negative word pairs was not better than memory for neutral word pairs. In fact, cued recall of negative stimuli exceeded that of neutral stimuli only when word pairs were encoded holistically, as in the case of adjective-noun pairs. Findings are discussed in terms of the important dissociation between item and associative memory, and the implications of this distinction for theories of emotional memory in general. Finally, a discrete-emotion approach to emotional memory is introduced as one fruitful avenue for exploration.
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