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Emotion and intuition.

Annette Bolte1, Thomas Goschke, Julius Kuhl

  • 1Institute of Psychology, Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany. annette.bolte@tu-bs.de

Psychological Science
|August 22, 2003
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Positive mood enhances intuitive judgments of word coherence by broadening memory activation. Negative mood impairs this ability, hindering semantic coherence assessments.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Intuitive judgments rely on semantic coherence.
  • Emotional states may influence cognitive processes like semantic memory retrieval.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of emotional states on intuitive judgments of semantic coherence.
  • To explore how positive and negative moods affect the ability to identify coherent word triads.

Main Methods:

  • Participants judged the semantic coherence of word triads (coherent vs. incoherent).
  • Experiment 1: Neutral mood baseline.
  • Experiment 2: Induced positive and negative moods.

Main Results:

  • Neutral mood allowed for better-than-chance discrimination of coherent triads.

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  • Positive mood significantly improved intuitive coherence judgments.
  • Negative mood resulted in performance at chance level, impairing judgments.

    • Conclusions:

    • Positive mood facilitates the spread of activation to weaker associates, enhancing semantic coherence detection.
    • Negative mood restricts activation to dominant meanings, impairing intuitive judgments and semantic coherence assessment.