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How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought.

Gerald L Clore1, Jeffrey R Huntsinger

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA. gclore@virginia.edu

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|August 19, 2007
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Happy or sad feelings provide information influencing thought content and style. Affective information, not the emotion itself, guides cognitive tasks, enhancing or inhibiting performance based on its perceived source.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Emotions (happy or sad) significantly impact cognitive processes, including thought content and style.
  • A key hypothesis suggests affect functions as information about the value of cognitions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of affect as information in cognitive tasks.
  • To test whether the source attribution of affect influences its impact on cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental manipulation of affect and its attributed source.
  • Assessment of cognitive tasks, including evaluative judgments and information processing.

Main Results:

  • Affect's influence on cognition can be eliminated by altering its perceived source.

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  • Positive affect validates cognitions, promoting relational processing.
  • Negative affect invalidates cognitions, promoting item-specific processing.

    • Conclusions:

    • The information conveyed by affect, rather than affect itself, is critical for cognitive outcomes.
    • Affective influences on cognitive psychology phenomena are mediated by how the affect is interpreted.