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For the recognition test, which was followed by a RKG judgement,<br />

none of the ‘old’ items were selected significantly more often than chance<br />

would predict [One: t(11) = 0.39, p = .70, d = 0.11; Three: t(11) = 0.52, p =<br />

.61, d = 0.15; Five: t(11) = 1.62, p = .13, d = 0.47]. A 3 (emotion) x 3<br />

(repetitions) repeated measures ANOVA found no significant main effects for<br />

the main effects of emotion block or repetitions and the interaction between<br />

emotion block and repetitions was not significant.<br />

We analysed the Remember / Know / Guess responses by conducting<br />

an ANOVA on each of the different types of responses separately with three<br />

factors of Correct or Incorrect, Emotion block and Number of repetitions. We<br />

analysed Recollection and Familiarity (as per Yonelinas et al., 1998) by<br />

emotion block and number of repetitions. However, as recognition did not<br />

exceed chance it is difficult to interpret these results and therefore they are not<br />

reported here. (Results of these analyses are given in Appendix 2.2).<br />

Section 3.4. Discussion<br />

No evidence of recognition memory was found and there was no<br />

evidence of emotional enhancement of memory.<br />

Section 4. General Discussion<br />

Overall performance was lower than that observed by Whittlesea and<br />

Price (2001) and there were not many emotional effects. This may be because<br />

the stimuli in our experiment were more difficult to encode. Nevertheless, our<br />

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