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The Self-Reference Effect, Emotion, And Self-Esteem, Analise Mcgreal
The Self-Reference Effect, Emotion, And Self-Esteem, Analise Mcgreal
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
This study examines the effect of emotionally-charged stimuli on surprise recall rates of self-referentially processed words. In a between-subjects experimental design, 101 undergraduate students from the University of Central Florida (UCF) were randomly assigned to one of three groups (positive words, negative words, or neutral words) and presented with a list of seven adjectives describing appearance (e.g. cute, appalling, tall); experimental procedures were carried out through the UCF Qualtrics online survey design platform. After self-referential processing, a significant difference between all three groups was demonstrated by completion of a one-way ANOVA, with recall rates decreasing from the neutral, to the …