TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wendt, Julia
A1  - Weymar, Mathias
A1  - Junge, Martin
A1  - Hamm, Alfons O.
A1  - Lischke, Alexander
T1  - Heartfelt memories
T2  - Emotion : a new journal from the American Psychological Association
N2  - During social interactions, we rapidly judge others’ trustworthiness on basis of their facial characteristics. Face-based trustworthiness judgments may not only affect our current but also our future interactions because we seem to be more inclined to remember untrustworthy than trustworthy faces. Memory formation of salient stimuli like untrustworthy faces may be modulated by the interplay between the autonomic and central nervous system, which can be indexed by changes in vagally mediated heart rate variability (HRV). To test this assumption, we investigated whether differences in HRV would be associated with differences in memory formation of untrustworthy faces in a sample of healthy participants (n = 34, all female). Untrustworthy faces were remembered more accurately than trustworthy faces, albeit only by participants with high and not low HRV. Across participants, increased memory accuracy for untrustworthy faces was associated with increased HRV. We discuss these findings in the context of neurobiological theories regarding the interplay between the autonomic and central nervous system during the regulation of autonomic, emotional and cognitive processes. (PsycInfo Database Record
KW  - trustworthiness
KW  - face memory
KW  - heart rate variability
KW  - amygdala
KW  - prefrontal cortex
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50387
SN  - 1528-3542
SN  - 1931-1516
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 178
EP  - 182
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -