Department of Basic Neurosciences and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.
Department of Basic Neurosciences and Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability, University of Geneva.
Emotion. 2019 Sep;19(6):950-963. doi: 10.1037/emo0000493. Epub 2018 Sep 20.
Emotional memories are commonly recalled with an increased subjective sense of recollection but not necessarily with more accurate context recollection, depending on the type of context. Response-focused emotion regulation techniques, such as suppressing and intensifying emotion expression, can alter subjective arousal and later memory and confidence about memory. Here, we investigated if emotion suppression affects later subjective sense of recollection as well as context recollection for different types of details. To disentangle the contribution of arousal modulation versus potential cognitive costs of emotion suppression effects on later subjective sense of recollection, we further explored if intensifying emotion expression similarly affects later subjective sense of recollection and actual context recollection as emotion suppression. We found that emotion suppression decreases the subjective sense of recollection, while intensifying emotion expression has no effect on the subjective sense of recollection. In contrast, suppressing emotion did not affect the recollection of extrinsic and intrinsic contextual details, while intensifying emotion expression decreased recollection of intrinsic item features of emotional scenes. In conclusion, response-focused emotion regulation techniques with distinct effects on subjective arousal differentially affect the subjective sense of recollection and memory for contextual details. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
情绪记忆通常伴随着增强的主观回忆感，但不一定伴随着更准确的上下文回忆，这取决于上下文的类型。以关注反应为焦点的情绪调节技术，如抑制和增强情绪表达，可以改变主观唤醒和随后的记忆以及对记忆的信心。在这里，我们研究了情绪抑制是否会影响不同类型细节的后续主观回忆感和上下文回忆。为了厘清唤醒调节与情绪抑制对后续主观回忆感的潜在认知成本的贡献，我们进一步探讨了增强情绪表达是否会像情绪抑制一样对随后的主观回忆感和实际上下文回忆产生影响。我们发现，情绪抑制会降低主观回忆感，而增强情绪表达则对主观回忆感没有影响。相比之下，抑制情绪不会影响外在和内在情景细节的回忆，而增强情绪表达则会降低对情绪场景的内在项目特征的回忆。总之，以关注反应为焦点的情绪调节技术对主观唤醒有不同的影响，从而对主观回忆感和情景细节的记忆产生不同的影响。
