The effect of mood on shaping belief and recollection following false feedback.

Chunlin Li, Henry Otgaar, Fabiana Battista, Peter Muris, Yikang Zhang

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Article in Psychological research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chunlin LiFaculty of Law and Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium. chunlin.li@kuleuven.be.

Henry OtgaarFaculty of Law and Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium.

Fabiana BattistaDepartment of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.

Peter MurisFaculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Yikang ZhangFaculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Funding

China Scholarship Council 202007650008FWO Research Project G0D3621N

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Abstract

The current study examined how mood affects the impact of false feedback on belief and recollection. In a three-session experiment, participants first watched 40 neutral mini videos, which were accompanied by music to induce either a positive or negative mood, or no music. Following a recognition test, they received false feedback to reduce belief in the occurrence of the events displayed in some of the videos (Session 2). This was followed by an immediate memory test and a delayed memory assessment one week later (Session 3). The results revealed that participants in negative mood reported higher belief scores compared to those in positive moods, despite an overall decline in belief scores for all groups following the false feedback. Notably, individuals in negative moods exhibited less reduction in their belief scores after encountering challenges, thereby maintaining a higher accuracy in their testimonies. Over time, a reduction in the clarity of participants' memory recall was observed, which correspondingly reduced their testimony accuracy. This study thus indicates that mood states play a role in shaping belief and memory recall under the influence of false feedback.

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AffectFeedback, PsychologicalMental RecallAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleRecognition, PsychologyYoung AdultBelief reductionFalse feedbackMoodOmission errorsTestimony accuracy

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PMID38581439

DOI10.1007/s00426-024-01957-6

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