When Being Sad Improves Memory Accuracy: The Role of Affective State in Inadvertent Plagiarism

Amanda C. Gingerich

When Being Sad Improves Memory Accuracy: The Role of Affective State in Inadvertent Plagiarism

Amanda C. Gingerich

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Inadvertent plagiarism was investigated in participants who had been induced into a happy or sad mood either before encoding or before retrieval of items generated in a puzzle task. Results indicate that participants in a sad mood made fewer memory errors in which they claimed as their own an idea generated by another source than did those in a happy mood. However, this effect occurred only when mood was induced before encoding.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Oct 1 2009
Event	Gettysburg College Psychology Department Homecoming Symposium - Duration: Oct 1 2009 → …

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Conference	Gettysburg College Psychology Department Homecoming Symposium
Period	10/1/09 → …

Keywords

affective state
memory
plagiarism
sad mood

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Educational Psychology
Psychology

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When Being Sad Improves Memory Accuracy: The Role of Affective State in Inadvertent Plagiarism

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