Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Cogn Emot. 2012;26(2):351-61. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.574873. Epub 2012 Jan 10.
Event-based prospective memory tasks require the realisation of a delayed intention at the occurrence of a specific target event. The present research investigates how performance in this kind of prospective memory task is influenced by the current affective state. By manipulating participants' mood during intention realisation we tested two competing models of mood effects on memory (i.e., a capacity consuming account and a processing style account). Furthermore, we manipulated the valence of the target event to investigate mood-congruency effects in prospective memory. No evidence was found for a mood-congruency effect, but the results showed that prospective memory performance increased with a sad mood. This effect is consistent with recent theories on mood-dependent processing-style regulation, postulating that a sad mood produces a more analytic and detailed processing style whereas a happy mood produces a more global and less detailed processing style.
基于事件的前瞻性记忆任务要求在特定目标事件发生时实现延迟的意图。本研究调查了当前的情绪状态如何影响这种前瞻性记忆任务的表现。通过在意图实现过程中操纵参与者的情绪，我们测试了两种关于情绪对记忆影响的竞争模型（即容量消耗模型和加工方式模型）。此外，我们还操纵了目标事件的效价，以研究前瞻性记忆中的情绪一致性效应。没有发现情绪一致性效应的证据，但结果表明，前瞻性记忆表现随着悲伤情绪的增加而提高。这一效应与最近关于情绪依赖的加工方式调节的理论一致，该理论假设悲伤的情绪会产生更分析和更详细的加工方式，而快乐的情绪会产生更全局和不那么详细的加工方式。
