State-dependent retention (SDR) refers to the tendency to recall something more easily when in the same state as when one first learned it. The most directly relevant evidence in favor of mood SDR has confounded matching of mood at learning and recall with matching of mood induction procedure. A study was conducted to test directly whether the use of identical mood induction procedures can account for prior evidence of mood SDR. College students (N=157) participated in a two (same versus different mood at learning and free recall of neutral words) by two (same versus different type of mood induction at learning and recall) experiment. The results revealed that recall did not significantly differ among the groups. Subjects did not recall more if in the same mood at learning and recall, and the extent to which mood ratings differed between learning and recall did not relate to recall. Subjects receiving the same type of mood induction procedure both times also failed to show superior recall. Use of neutral material might have precluded finding effects of mood on memory, but neutral material is optimal for separating mood SDR from mood-congruent retrieval. (Author/NB)