Positive affect improves working memory: implications for controlled cognitive processing.

Yang, Hwajin; Yang, Sujin; M Isen, Alice

doi:10.1080/02699931.2012.713325

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Positive affect improves working memory: implications for controlled cognitive processing.

Published in Cognition & emotion • Jan 1, 2013

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Hwajin Yang

Sujin Yang

Alice M Isen

Abstract

This study examined the effects of positive affect on working memory (WM) and short-term memory (STM). Given that WM involves both storage and controlled processing and that STM primarily involves storage processing, we hypothesised that if positive affect facilitates controlled processing, it shoul...

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