We comment on a failure to replicate mood-dependent retrieval of memories that was reported in this journal by Wetzler in 1985. Wetzler's procedures for obtaining the effect were reasonable so we attempt to explain Wetzler's result and integrate it with other recent work on mood-dependent retrieval.
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