16:30 - 18:00
Talk Session 6
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16:30 - 18:00
Tue—HZ_2—Talks6—59
Tue-Talks6
Room:
Room: HZ_2
Chair/s:
Siri-Maria Kamp
Incidental Disgust vs. Fear: How Emotions Shape Recognition Accuracy and Underlying Retrieval Dynamics
Tue—HZ_2—Talks6—5904
Presented by: Aycan Kapucu
Elif Yüvrük 1İlayda Önay 2Aycan Kapucu 2*
1 Department of Psychology, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla/Turkey, 2 Department of Psychology, Ege University, Izmir/Turkey
Disgust-related items have a significant advantage over fear-related items regarding recognition memory accuracy (e.g., Moeck et al., 2021). Disgust-related items also influence the retrieval dynamics underlying recognition decisions. That is, participants exhibit an increased liberal response bias towards making "Old" decisions, regardless of accuracy advantage, and efficiently retrieve familiarity information favoring the "Old" decisions for disgust-related items (Yüvrük & Kapucu, 2023). Yet, the replicability of disgust's advantage remains unexplored when disgust is not integral (i.e., stimulus’s inherent emotional quality) but incidental (i.e., participant’s mood) to test items. In the present study, we aimed to investigate how incidental disgust influences recognition memory decisions for neutral items using the diffusion model of recognition memory (Ratcliff, 1978). Following studying the list of neutral words, participants were induced into disgust, fear, or neutral emotions, and then they completed an old/new recognition memory test Thus, we investigated the effects of specific emotions mostly on the retrieval stage of memory, not on encoding. Although manipulation check analyses confirmed that target emotions were induced intensely and discretely in participants, preliminary results showed no incidental disgust-related advantage on the accuracy, unlike integral disgust, questioning the replicability of disgust-related advantage. Ongoing diffusion model analyses are testing the retrieval dynamics of these surprising accuracy results, controlling for speed-accuracy tradeoffs, which have the potential to uncover the underlying decision process.
Keywords: incidental disgust and fear, recognition memory, diffusion model