Effects of emotion and sex difference on item-method directed forgetting

It is crucial to remember or forget others' faces in daily life. People can intentionally forget things they wish to forget, a phenomenon called directed forgetting (DF). This study examined the effects of stimuli's emotions and sex differences in participants and stimuli on DF. We used ha...

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Published in:	Heliyon
Main Authors:	Xiaolei Song, Xiaofei Hu, Feng Yi, Meimei Dong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2023-06-01
Subjects:	Directed forgetting Emotion Sex differences Selective rehearsal theory Inhibitory control theory
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023041038