The 17th Conference of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
May 25 - May 26, 2019KYOTO TERRSA
The 17th Conference of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
May 25 - May 26, 2019KYOTO TERRSA
[O4-03]Difference in the mood repair effect between voluntary and involuntary memory retrieval in depressive people
*Junya Hashimoto1, Ryota Kobayashi1, Shiho Kashihara1, Ryosuke Hiramoto1,5, Yusuke Haraguchi1, Norika Ishida2, Ayaka Okazaki2, Kazumi Kishimoto2, Honami Nakano2, Hiroki Horinouchi2, Tatsuru Honda1, Jianhong Zhu1, Yueze Sun1, Kazuki Yamamoto2, Takashi Nakao1, Noriaki Kanayama3,4, Makoto Miyatani1(1. Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, 2. School of Education, Hiroshima University, 3. Human Informatics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 4. Department of Industry Academia-Government and Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University, 5. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Keywords:
involuntary autobiographical memory,mood repair effect,depression
Although the voluntary retrieval of positive autobiographical memories improves mood, this effect is not observed in depressive people. Contrarily, they tend to get worse when they voluntarily retrieve positive autobiographical memories. A previous study that used retrieval of emotional pictures instead of autobiographical memories suggested that depressive people improve their mood through involuntary positive memory retrieval. However, the mood repair effect of positive autobiographical memories has not been studied experimentally. This study aimed to examine the difference in the mood repair effect between voluntary and involuntary positive autobiographical memory retrieval in depressive people experimentally. Findings revealed that only involuntary positive autobiographical memory retrieval improved the mood of depressive people.