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In this experiment we investigated the influence of emotion on<br />

recognition and on a subsequent Remember, Know, Guess judgement.<br />

Participants<br />

Twelve University of <strong>Nottingham</strong> students participated in Experiment<br />

1E (Mean age 24.42 years (SD 7.92 yrs); 7 female).<br />

Materials<br />

Procedure.<br />

The same materials were used as in Experiments 1A-D.<br />

The procedure was identical to that of Experiment 1A, except for the<br />

different instructions given to participants during the test phase. Participants<br />

were asked to perform a recognition judgement, for which instructions were the<br />

same as Experiment 1B. After each recognition judgement participants were<br />

asked to indicate their level of awareness of the memory by indicating whether<br />

they Remember / Know / Guess that they recognise the photo. Participants then<br />

indicated ‘Remember’ if their recognition was accompanied by some<br />

recollective experience, ‘Know’ if the photograph was familiar but they had no<br />

recollective experience, or ‘Guess’ if the photograph was not familiar nor was<br />

it accompanied by some recollective experience but they guessed that they had<br />

seen it earlier. They indicated this by pressing ‘R’, ‘K’ or ‘G’ on the keyboard.<br />

Participants were also given written instructions explaining how to differentiate<br />

between RKG (Bastin & Van der Linden, 2003). Their understanding of these<br />

instructions was checked and they were asked to justify their RKG judgement<br />

following the two example tasks.<br />

Section 3.3. Results<br />

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