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Valence, arousal, and attractiveness can affect memory for stimuli. Objective: To determine how these factors affect memory for a name associated with a fearful, happy, or neutral face. Methods: 60 participants saw 240 face-name pairs (i.e., names paired with fearful, happy, and neutral faces) and later performed a forced-choice recognition memory test. Results: There was no difference in memory f... read moreor fearful, happy, or neutral face-name pairs. Moreover, there was no relationship between measures of valence, arousal, or attractiveness and memory. Conclusions: Multiple explanations for these findings are discussed, including that the arousing and positive or negative features of the faces may have distracted the participants during encoding, thus resulting in poor recognition memory performance.read less
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