The influence of social anxiety-provoking contexts on context reinstatement effects
Published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020
Recommended citation: Yeung, R. C., Lee, C. M., & Fernandes, M. A. (2021). The influence of social anxiety-provoking contexts on context reinstatement effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(7), 1170–1184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021821998489
Results suggest that the benefit to target memory via reinstating a context depends critically on emotional characteristics of the reinstated context, particularly when the context scene was highly anxiety-provoking with embedded faces.
Recommended citation: Yeung, R. C., Lee, C. M., & Fernandes, M. A. (2021). The influence of social anxiety-provoking contexts on context reinstatement effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(7), 1170–1184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021821998489