Abstract
The relationship between personality traits, current mood state and the retrieval of positive and negative memories was investigated. Fifty-nine subjects retrieved a series of memories in response to a list of 20 stimulus words and subsequently rated those memories on pleasant/unpleasant and happy/unhappy scales. After controlling for the effect of mood states, Extraversion related primarily to the retrieval of more positive memories, Neuroticism to both fewer positive and more negative memories and Psychoticism mainly to fewer positive memories. The relevance of these findings to studies demonstrating a relation between mood and memory retrieval is discussed.
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