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The Effect Of Emotional State On Inadvertent Plagiarism Memory Errors, Amanda C. Gingerich
The Effect Of Emotional State On Inadvertent Plagiarism Memory Errors, Amanda C. Gingerich
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We investigated inadvertent plagiarism by inducing participants into a happy or sad mood before they generated items in a puzzle task. Compared to happy mood, participants induced into a sad mood made fewer memory errors in which they claimed a previously-generated idea to be new; confidence ratings in these errors, however, was higher.