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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > emotion-enhanced memory effect > taboo word effect

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taboo word effect  

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  • A phenomenon of emotion-enhanced memory observed when memory is better for taboo words than for emotionally neutral words.

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  • • Buchanan, T. W., Etzel, J. A., Adolphs, R., & Tranel, D. (2006). The influence of autonomic arousal and semantic relatedness on memory for emotional words. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61(1), 26–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.10.022

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Guillet, R., & Arndt, J. (2009). Taboo words: The effect of emotion on memory for peripheral information. Memory & Cognition, 37(6), 866–879. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.37.6.866

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Jay, T., Caldwell-Harris, C., & King, K. (2008). Recalling taboo and nontaboo words. The American Journal of Psychology, 121(1), 83–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/20445445

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Kensinger, E. A., & Corkin, S. (2003). Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words? Memory & Cognition, 31(8), 1169–1180. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195800

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • MacKay, D. G., & Ahmetzanov, M. V. (2005). Emotion, memory, and attention in the taboo stroop paradigm: An experimental analogue of flashbulb memories. Psychological Science, 16(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00776.x

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Madan, C. R., Caplan, J. B., Lau, C. S. M., & Fujiwara, E. (2012). Emotional arousal does not enhance association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(4), 695–716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.001

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Madan, C. R., Shafer, A. T., Chan, M., & Singhal, A. (2017). Shock and awe: Distinct effects of taboo words on lexical decision and free recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 793–810. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1167925

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Schmidt, S. R., & Saari, B. (2007). The emotional memory effect: Differential processing or item distinctiveness? Memory & Cognition, 35(8), 1905–1916. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192924

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

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  • Frank Arnould

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