Cognition and Memory

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed a mounting interest in the impact of happiness, sadness, and other affective states or moods on learning, memory, decision making, and allied cognitive processes. Much of this interest has focuses on two phenomena: mood-congruent cognition, the observation that a given mood promotes the processing of information that possesses similar affective tone or valence, and mood-dependent memory, the observation that information encoded in a particular mood is most retrievable in that mood, irrespective of the information's affective valence. Examines the history and current status of research on mood congruence and mood dependence with a view to clarifying what is known about each of these phenomena and why they are both worth knowing about. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)