Students Of Different Personality Types Emotional State Memory Experimental Study

Mood and emotion are always thought of an important aspect of which effect human behavior. The studies of this aspect have been improved greatly in recent 20 years. Most study of this aspect is about Mood-Congruent Effects, Mood-Congruent Effects are "The enhanced encoding and/or retrieval of material the affective valence of which is congruent with ongoing mood". Some researchers find these effects in explicit memory and implicit memory, but there is many researchers have oppositional opinion. I think that is because the differences of each individual, based on Trait-congruent theory, different personality trait have different effects on individual behavior. The aim of the present research was to explore when and how personality traits and mood states interact to influence emotion-congruent memory. In Study 1, participants in natural mood completed a series of memory tasks. The same procedure was used in Study 2, except a positive or negative mood state was induced prior to completion of the memory tasks. Extraversion and positive affectivity were related to retrieval of positive memories and Neuroticism and negative affectivity were related to retrieval of negative memories. But, we have not find Mood-Congruent Effects in implicit memory.