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Current negative mood encourages changes in end-of-life treatment decisions and is associated with false memories
To investigate the effects of mood on people’s end-of-life treatment decisions and their false memories of those decisions, participants took part in two sessions. At Time 1, participants were experimentally induced into positive or negative moods. They decided whether they would want to receive or refuse treatments in a range of hypothetical medical scenarios, such as tube feeding while in a coma. Four weeks later, at Time 2, participants were induced into the same or the opposite mood and made these decisions a second time. They also recalled their previous decisions. Participants in negative moods at Time 2 changed more of their current decisions and falsely remembered more of their previous decisions than participants in positive moods. These findings suggest that people’s current moods influence whether they change their treatment decisions; current decisions in turn bias recall of past decisions
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Cognition and emotionVolume
25Issue
1Pagination
132 - 139Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0269-9931eISSN
1464-0600Language
engNotes
First published on 04 October 2010Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa businessUsage metrics
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