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Subjects engaged in intentional and incidental learning tasks while under high or low stress. High stress was induced by leading the subjects to believe that a blood sample was about to be taken; low stress corresponded to no blood sample. Results suggest that intentional and incidental learning are differentially affected by such stress. It is argued that the present methodology is useful for studying the memorial consequences of stress involving the risk of bodily injury.
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Toglia, M.P., Payne, D.G., Nightingale, N.L. et al. Event memory under naturalistically induced stress. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 27, 405–408 (1989). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334639
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