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Mood Regulation and Memory: Repairing Sad Moods with Happy Memories
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A total of 106 undergraduates participated in a study examining how individuals retrieve memories to repair negative moods. Participants first completed a measure of depression. Two weeks later, participants were assigned to either a sad or neutral mood induction. After mood induction, they recalled two memories, rated their affective responses to the memories, and indicated why they chose the valence and order of the memories. Consistent with mood-congruent recall, participants in the sad condition reported sadder memories than those in the neutral condition. However, participants with prior low depression scores tended to recall more positive second memories, whereas participants with higher prior depression scores recalled consecutive negative memories. Sixty-eight per cent of sad participants who retrieved a negative first and positive second memory mentioned mood repair as motivating the recruitment of the more positive second memory.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Josephson, B. R.
- Affiliations
- Hofstra University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Josephson, Braden R.
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1996-07
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 437-444
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2018518524
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 1.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
- Keywords
- mood regulation, mood repair, memory retrieval, sad mood, positive memories, depression, memory valence
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