ABSTRACT
Emotional experiences are ubiquitous in our daily lives (just turn on the TV). Yet for many years, emotion, especially the relationship between emotion and memory, has not been a major topic in cognitive psychology. In fact, the first textbook on cognitive psychology written by Neisser (1967) did not mention emotion at all. However, largely due to the everyday memory movement during the 1970s (see Neisser, 1982), the emotion-memory relationship emerged as a major area of research. As a result, during the past 40 years, advancements have been made in our understanding of the critical role that emotion plays in the formation of memories. In the present chapter, our goal will be to present the methods that have been used to study the relationship between emotion and memory.
