You are that smiling guy I met at the party! Socially positive signals foster memory for identities and contexts.

摘要: The emotional influence of facial expressions on memory is well-known whereas the contextual information for faces yet to be extensively explored. This study investigated interplay between expression and surrounding context in affecting both identities (item memory) associative backgrounds (source memory). At encoding fearful happy were presented embedded fear or scenes (i.e.: fear-scenes, happy-scenes, happy-scenes fear-scenes) participants asked judge congruency face-scene compounds (i.e. fear-scenes congruent compounds). In recognition phase, old intermixed with new ones: all isolated a neutral expression. Participants requested indicate whether each face had been previously Then, scene originally compounded was tested by three alternative forced choice task results evidenced that identity differently modulated valence face-context better encoded happy-scenarios. Moreover, also benefits from association smiling face. Our findings highlight socially positive signals conveyed may prompt context.