The impact of affect on déjà vu. Does positivity provoke déjà vu?

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Cognition, grade: 1,0, University of Groningen, language: English, abstract: This study sought to find out whether the effect of positive mood on familiarity also transfers to d j vu. It was hypothesized that people with a higher positive affect will be more likely to commit errors in a memory judgment task, and subsequently experience more d j vus in a lab study. 42 participants of both sexes with a mean age of 23 participated for course credit or voluntarily. We used a 2 x 2 experimental research design with a mood induction (positive and neutral) and a computer task with pictorial stimuli; assignment to the mood conditions was random. The dependent variables were performance at a memory test and d j vu occurrence. Independent variables were level of positive affect and processing style (deep or shallow). While we did not find that people with a higher positive affect were less accurate in the memory test, we found that more positive people were more likely to experience d j vu. We concluded that the results of the present study could shed new light on previous studies but urge their replication with a larger sample size.

Author: Anne-Katrin Muth
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: 02/26/2019
Pages: 28
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.07d
ISBN13: 9783668908918
ISBN10: 3668908915
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Research & Methodology

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