The difference in accuracy due to emotionally negative versus benign content was greater after making size ratings (a difference of 0.56 in d') than for affective ratings (a difference of 0.19).
Importantly, this suggests that people tend to report remembering more emotionally negative than benign events as having occurred in reality, regardless of whether they were actually perceived or originated as images or verbal descriptions.
In contrast to this emotion-related difference in response bias, in Experiments 1 and 2 we found little difference in a signal detection measure of sensitivity between emotionally negative and benign items.
At the same time the results of Experiment 3 are also broadly consistent with the findings from Experiments 1 and 2 reported here: when rated for affect there was much less difference in reality monitoring accuracy between emotionally negative and benign images.
Mr. Hanson understood that Grady Tripp was not just emotionally and intellectually adrift: he was a benign, accepting man who endeavored to help James Leer as an unconscious tryout for fatherhood.
The exact indications for stent placement in benign strictures are still being emotionally debated amongst pulmonologists and surgeons [ 24], appear institution specific, but at least include airway compression from benign thyroid disease [ 25] and strictures from transplantation anastomoses [ 26].
In half of each trial type captions were emotionally negative (e.g., snake), and in half they were benign (e.g., sheep).
In contrast, the analysis of response criterion scores (c) indicated a more lax criterion was used for emotionally negative items, with corresponding captions being more likely to be endorsed than benign items.
At first glance, this account does not provide an obvious explanation of why, when rated for size, the source of benign (or neutral) items was less accurately identified than was that of emotionally negative items.
Although it is a benign tumor, an ameloblastoma can have a devastating effect on children both physically and emotionally.
