ABSTRACT
Cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists typically clump together all participants within a particular age range into a single participant group and analyze their data without regard to individual differences. In fact, all of the data that have been described thus far in this book has paid little attention to individual variability in cognitive or affective function. As we have seen, these group analyses have provided fundamental insights into emotion-memory interactions. However, they also have the potential to miss fundamental modulators of those interactions. In this chapter, we explore how differences in young adults’ cognitive ability, their personalities, their affective traits, and their sex can influence the effects of emotion on memory.
