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The emotional recall task : juxtaposing recall and recognition-based affect scales
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Liu, Ying, Masitah, Annasya and Hills, Thomas Trenholm (2020) The emotional recall task : juxtaposing recall and recognition-based affect scales. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46 (9). pp. 1782-1794. doi:10.1037/xlm0000841 ISSN 0278-7393.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000841
Abstract
Existing affect scales typically involve recognition of emotions from a predetermined emotion checklist. However, a recognition-based checklist may fail to capture sufficient breadth and specificity of an individual’s recalled emotional experiences and may therefore miss emotions that frequently come to mind. More generally, how do recalled emotions differ from recognized emotions? To address these issues, we present and evaluate an affect scale based on recalled emotions. Participants are asked to produce 10 words that best described their emotions over the past month and then to rate each emotion for how often it was experienced. We show that average weighted valence of the words produced in this task, the Emotional Recall Task (ERT), is strongly correlated with scales related to general affect, such as the PANAS, Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Well-being, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales, and a few other related scales. We further show that the Emotional Recall Task captures a breadth and specificity of emotions not available in other scales but that are nonetheless commonly reported as experienced emotions. We test a general version of the ERT (the ERT general) that is language neutral and can be used across cultures. Finally, we show that the ERT is valid in a test-retest paradigm. In sum, the ERT measures affect based on emotion terms relevant to an individual’s idiosyncratic experience. It is consistent with recognition-based scales, but also offers a new direction towards enriching our understanding of individual differences in recalled and recognized emotions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Q Science > QP Physiology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emotions, Memory, Memory -- Physiological aspects , Well-being, Recollection (Psychology) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0278-7393 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 46 | ||||||||
Number: | 9 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1782-1794 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1037/xlm0000841 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ©American Psychological Association, 2020. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000841 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 March 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 March 2020 | ||||||||
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