... 1-minute delay. Therefore, there are some weaknesses in Woll's and Martinez's experiment. Hypotheses The present research tested the hypothesis that using specific emotion concepts, such as happy, angry and sad, in explaining perceived emotional facial expressions would bias perceptual memory for those expressions. Apart from testing the above hypothesis, it is further tested that whether there are any differences in biasing effects when different types of conceptualization are involved, that is verbalized explanation, imagined explanation and mere labeling, as well as when different types of emotional expressions are encoded, that is angry-happy and angry-sad. Research Design In the present research, three experiments were carried out. Subjects In total, two hundred and eleven female and eighty-six male university students participated in all three experiments. Materials In Experiments 1 and 2, a set of eight seamless digital angry-happy movies, consisting of 100 facial composites was used. In Experiment 3, angry-sad, instead of angry-happy, movies was used. The validity of ...

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