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AbstractA new hypothesis is proposed to account for the relation between sad mood and self‐ conception valence, the ‘first, congruency; then, incongruency’ hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, sad mood initially influences the valence of open‐ended self‐descriptions in a mood‐congruent fashion, but after a short period of time self‐descriptions become mood‐incongruent. Subjects were placed into a sad, neutral, or happy mood state, and were subsequently asked to freely describe themselves in writing. The results were consistent with the hypothesis. Sad mood affected the valence of the first half of self‐descriptions in a congruent manner, but affected the valence of the second half of self‐descriptions in an incongruent manner That is, with the passage of time sad mood led to increasingly positive self‐descriptions (i.e. equally positive as neutral mood did). Implications of the f

ISSN:0046-2772    

DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240112

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe present study is concerned with the processes mediating the impact of mood on impression formation. Four assumptions are distinguished: (1) mood as a prime for the generation and/or association of additional information, (2) mood as a cue for the change of meaning of incoming stimuli, (3) mood as a direct source of information, and (4) mood as a cue for selective weighing of incoming stimuli, These mediating processes assumptions are specified in terms of information integration theory A pattern of hypotheses is derived which allows to examine what mechanisms underlie the impact of mood in an impression formation task. The results confirm the mood congruency effect and show that mood congruent judgments are mediated neither by change of meaning nor by selective weighing of incoming information. Also the explanation by additionally activated information primed by mood was not supported, However, the findings indicate that mood serves as a direct source of information to be incorporated into the judgment together with the presented information: (1) parameter estimations show that the global impression depenh on the person's current mood, whereas the scale values and the weights of the traits presented are independent of the mood state, (2) judgments of single traits are more influenced by mood than judgments of pairs, (3) medium traits are more affected than extreme traits and (4) the negativity effect is more pronounced in a good mood than in a bad mood. The final judgment is an averaging process of a mood‐dependent global impression and of mood‐independent stimulus information. Implications of these findings for current mood and social judgment models are discus

ISSN:0046-2772    

DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240113

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study investigated the effect of mood on the favourability of intergroup attitudes, and on two important components of intergroup attitudes, namely stereotypes and feelings (i.e. emotional associates) toward social groups. In addition, the individual difference variable of affect intensity (AIM, Larsen and Diener, 1987) was considered as a potential moderating variable. With high AIMs expected to demonstrate more pronounced mood‐judgment effects. After a musical mood induction, subjects completed measures assessing attitudes, stereotypes, and feelings toward French Canadians and Pakistanis. The results revealed that mood influenced attitudes. Stereotypes, and feelings toward the groups, but only for high AIMs. The implications of the findings for future research are discusse

ISSN:0046-2772    

DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240114

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe mechanisms by which mood states influence attitude judgments in persuasion settings are delineated in terms of current dual‐process theorizing. With an emphasis on mechanisms that may operate when the evaluative implications of message content are ambiguous. In a preliminary test of hypotheses concerning such circumstances, college‐aged subjects were put into a happy or sad mood and then read a message containing unambiguous strong, unambiguous weak, or ambiguous arguments, which was attributed to a highly credible source (heuristic cue) When message content was ambiguous, sad (as compared to happy) subjects' attitudes were more influenced by heuristic processing, and their message‐related thoughts were biased by the heuristic cue. These and other results are discussed within a dual‐processing framework, and compared to other social cognition theorizing on the impact of affect on social j

ISSN:0046-2772    

DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240115

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0046-2772    

DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240101

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY