APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Happy Faces Enhance Implicit Memory for Words
- Gerly Tamm
Ghent University
Abstract
Two experiments (n=117, n=69) were conducted to study how facial emotional expressions affect neutral word priming. The results suggest that 1) smiling faces enhance word priming, 2) the meaning (positive, negative, neutral) of smiling faces can be changed; only the positive meaning enhances word priming. Conclusion: happiness facilitates verbal memory.
Memory