There are quite a few papers - especially concerning recognition biases in patients with mood disorders. Maybe these links will help a bit:

1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.10.008

2. DOI 10.1007/s10608-007-9140-3

3. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2007.04.022

4. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.04.024 :)

Hi Anna,

Thank you very much for those links - while they're informative and may be helpful to me they're not exactly what I'm looking for. Emotion and affect are fairly vague so I should have clarified. I'm looking for research on affect elicited from the experiment (i.e. watching a sad / happy / neutral video) and its influence on learning and remembering new faces in any "normal" populations.

Thank you again,

Steve

Steve, if you're looking for work showing that manipulated affect in a perceiver affects their face memory, I would suggest looking at the following paper:

Johnson, K. J., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2005). “We All Look the Same to Me” Positive Emotions Eliminate the Own-Race Bias in Face Recognition. Psychological Science, 16(11), 875-881.

As an aside, the above paper is specific to the Cross Race Effect (better memory for same race rather than cross race individuals), but you may be able to use this as a starting point for your work.

Thank you for your response Michael - coincidentally, my project focuses on the cross race effect and I am familiar with that paper. I suppose from this finding one would deduce that affect influences face memory in general.