On Sre Under Affective Priming

There is a close relationship among emotion, memory and ego andthe state of affective priming may affect people's self-memory. This studyaims at investigating how affective priming affect self-reference effect byconnecting the research paradigm of affective priming and that ofself-reference effect.Adopting Chinese college students as subjects, imaging materials asstimulating materials and emotional adjectives as leaming materials, thisexperiment is conducted to explore the subjects' result variety whenfinishing different tasks under different emotional priming states byrespectively recording the results of free memory in the process ofword-judgment and self-reference task. Imaging materials can be dividedinto positive affective priming and negative affective priming andemotional adjectives can also be classified into positive adjectives andnegative ones.The results indicate that there are significant main effects fordifferent tasks and emotional adjectives. Significant interactive effects arealso shown between affective priming and emotional adjectives andbetween affective priming and different tasks as well. Moreover, there areremarkable interactive effects among emotional adjectives, different tasksand affective priming.Thus, the following conclusions can be drawn from the study: (1)word class affects the unconscious memory effect; (2) as affective stimuli,emotional adjectives can produce self-reference effect; (3) the state ofaffective priming has an effect on the follow-up memory processing andthere exists mood-congruent effect; (4)affective priming has a repressiveeffect on self-reference processing of emotional adjectives with bothpositive and negative emotional traits and (5)there is unconsciousemotional regulation under negative affective priming.