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Subjects’ moods of accomplishment or frustration were induced nonhypnotically by varying their goals on a pursuit rotor task. Immediately after mood induction, subjects learned a word list. After a second mood induction, subjects learned a second word list. Later they were asked to recall both word lists after a third mood induction. The results showed that moods were manipulated significantly, but subjects’ recall performance was not significantly related to the match or mismatch of their learning and recall moods. Thus, recall was not mood-dependent.
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Johnson, T.L., Klinger, E. A nonhypnotic failure to replicate mood-dependent recall. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 26, 191–194 (1988). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337283
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