The influence of affect on judgment depends on its object

Schiller, Alexander J.; Clore, Gerald L.

doi:10.1037/e514472015-586

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“…While the life-satisfaction study showed evidence of affect congruence, both the life satisfaction and the Lance Armstrong studies showed evidence of something different (Schiller, 2014). One possible explanation is that positive affect enhances or reinforces current beliefs or thought.…”

Section: Extremity Effectsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…In contrast to the prediction made by Isen (2008) that positive affect should not simply make ratings more extreme, two studies have found evidence of just such extremity effects (Schiller, 2014). In one experiment, participants induced to be happy or sad were asked to evaluate a Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG bracelet shortly after Armstrong was revealed to have used performance enhancing drugs to achieve his Tour de France wins.…”

Section: Extremity Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…"Affect-incongruent" effects are those in which participants experiencing positive affect evaluate something more negatively than sad participants. The Lance Armstrong study in Schiller (2014) is an example of an affect-incongruent effect. "Extremity" effects are those in which ratings by participants experiencing positive affect are more extreme on the scale than those experiencing negative affect.…”

Section: Rethinking Affective Congruencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Initial studies finding evidence for affective incongruence focused on ratings of life satisfaction and on liking for Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG bracelets (Schiller, 2014). One major question raised throughout this work was the reproducibility of the main finding.…”

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“…Participants were asked to rate their liking for a poster of Alex Rodriguez shortly after it was confirmed that his performance also was aided by the use of steroids. If the initial effect (Schiller, 2014) holds up, happy moods should result in lower levels of liking for a poster of Alex Rodriguez than do sad moods, because Rodriguez, like Armstrong, was expected to be generally negatively evaluated.…”

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Beyond Affective Congruence

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Emotions and moods are affective states that sometimes influence evaluative judgments. The most common research finding is that affect colors evaluations to be affect congruent. For example, people in positive affective states generally make more positive evaluations than people in negative states. The literature on affect and judgment is so consistent that one might assume that the influence of affect on judgment is always affect congruent, so that people in positive affective states evaluate everything more positively. This dissertation, however, asks what happens when a person in a positive state is confronted with a negative judgment object. Do people in happy moods see lying, cheating, or stealing as less bad than they otherwise would? Despite the consistency in the literature on affective congruence, I propose that affect often does not lead to affect-congruent evaluation, but rather that the direction of affective influences on evaluations often depends on participants' initial opinion of the target of evaluation. In this dissertation I will explore situations that do not lead to congruence, but instead lead to affective incongruence (Study 1), to influences on the extremity of responses (Study 2), and to affective enhancement of existing beliefs (Studies 3 and 4). In a final study, I tested the effect of mood on experimentally manipulated positive and negative targets. The goal of the dissertation is to examine the judgment conditions under which affect incongruence, rather than affect congruence, may occur and to propose an explanation to account for both traditional and new patterns of results.

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Section: Extremity Effectsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Extremity Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Rethinking Affective Congruencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Beyond Affective Congruence

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The Impact of Affect on Out-Group Judgments Depends on Dominant Information-Processing Styles

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Rovenpor

2016

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Two studies tested the affect-as-cognitive-feedback model, in which positive and negative affective states are not uniquely associated with particular processing styles, but rather serve as feedback about currently accessible processing styles. The studies extend existing work by investigating (a) both incidental and integral affect, (b) out-group judgments, and (c) downstream consequences. We manipulated processing styles and either incidental (Study 1) or integral (Study 2) affect and measured perceptions of out-group homogeneity. Positive (relative to negative) affect increased out-group homogeneity judgments when global processing was primed, but under local priming, the effect reversed (Studies 1 and 2). A similar interactive effect emerged on attributions, which had downstream consequences for behavioral intentions (Study 2). These results demonstrate that both incidental and integral affect do not directly produce specific processing styles, but rather influence thinking by providing feedback about currently accessible processing styles.

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The influence of affect on judgment depends on its object

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Beyond Affective Congruence

The Impact of Affect on Out-Group Judgments Depends on Dominant Information-Processing Styles

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