The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation

Gable, Philip A.; Harmon‐Jones, Eddie

doi:10.1080/02699930903378305

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“…On the other hand, pleasant feelings with low activation (LAPA) are instead expected to be less related to positive behaviours. Feelings of that kind contain no impetus for action, generating reflection more than activity (Frijda, 1986) and in some circumstances broadening cognition rather than targeting attention on personal goalattainment (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2010).…”

Section: Predictions About Core Affects and Behavioursmentioning

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Four-quadrant investigation of job-related affects and behaviours

Warr

Bindl

Parker

et al. 2013

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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Emphasizing differences in activation as well as valence, six studies across a range of situations examined relations between types of job-related core affect and 13 self-reported work behaviours. A theory-based measure of affect was developed, and its four-quadrant structure was found to be supported across studies. Also consistent with hypotheses, highactivation pleasant affect was more strongly correlated with positive behaviours than were low-activation pleasant feelings, and those associations tended to be greatest for discretionary behaviours in contrast to routine task proficiency. Additionally as predicted, unpleasant jobrelated affects that had low rather than high activation were more strongly linked to the negative work behaviours examined. Theory and practice would benefit from greater differentiation between affects and between behaviours.

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Section: Predictions About Core Affects and Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Four-quadrant investigation of job-related affects and behaviours

Warr

Bindl

Parker

et al. 2013

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

194

213

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“…Related to this issue, the results of this study raise the more general question how positive affect and WM performance are related from day to day. On the one hand, positive affect that is moderately high in arousal may result in increased WM performance, as it is associated with high approach motivation and potentially indicative of an optimal state for task performance (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2010;Yerkes & Dodson, 1908). On the other hand, there is evidence that positive mood impairs executive functioning, potentially because of increased distractibility (Phillips, Bull, Adams, & Fraser, 2002).…”

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Daily variability in working memory is coupled with negative affect: The role of attention and motivation.

Brose¹,

Schmiedek²,

Lövdén³

et al. 2012

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Across days, individuals experience varying levels of negative affect, control of attention, and motivation. We investigated whether this intraindividual variability was coupled with daily fluctuations in working memory (WM) performance. In 100 days, 101 younger individuals worked on a spatial N-back task and rated negative affect, control of attention, and motivation. Results showed that individuals differed in how reliably WM performance fluctuated across days, and that subjective experiences were primarily linked to performance accuracy. WM performance was lower on days with higher levels of negative affect, reduced control of attention, and reduced task-related motivation. Thus, variables that were found to predict WM in betweensubjects designs showed important relationships to WM at the within-person level. In addition, there was shared predictive variance among predictors of WM. Days with increased negative affect and reduced performance were also days with reduced control of attention and reduced motivation to work on tasks. These findings are in line with proposed mechanisms linking negative affect and cognitive performance.

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“…Attentional narrowing refers to "tunnel vision" (Easterbrook, 1959) and means that expectations can reduce the ability to encode information that appears peripheral instead of central to the attentional focus. Research has indicated that attentional narrowing effects can occur slowly and transiently in relation to mood (for a review, see Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2010), but that attentional narrowing can also occur very rapidly in relation to specific stimuli (e.g., Bosmans, Braet, Koster, & De Raedt, 2009). In this study, we are specifically interested in this latter effect where attentional narrowing occurs at short presentation times (generally shorter than 90 ms, Ball, Beard, Roemker, Miller, & Griggs, 1988) making it hard to strategically control its outcome.…”

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