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¹Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660, USA. jhuntsinger@luc.edu

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Experiencing anger narrows the gap between implicit and explicit attitudes. This emotion enhances certainty, increasing the correspondence between automatic and deliberate self-aspects.

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Emotion Research

Background:

Implicit and explicit attitudes represent automatic and deliberate self-aspects, respectively.
The relationship between these attitude types is crucial for understanding self-regulation and decision-making.
Emotions are known to influence cognitive processes, but their specific role in attitude correspondence remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To empirically investigate whether anger narrows the separation between implicit and explicit attitudes.
To examine the mediating role of certainty and control in the anger-attitude correspondence relationship.
To understand anger's overlooked function in regulating spontaneous versus deliberative self-processes.

Main Methods:

Three experiments were conducted to test the hypotheses.
Participants experienced different emotions (anger, neutral, sadness).
Implicit-explicit attitude correspondence was measured, along with appraisals of certainty and control.

Main Results:

Anger significantly increased implicit-explicit attitude correspondence compared to neutral and sad emotions.
Appraisals of certainty mediated the effect of anger on attitude correspondence.
Individual control did not mediate this effect.

Conclusions:

Anger plays a key role in increasing the alignment between implicit and explicit attitudes.
The subjective feeling of certainty associated with anger is a primary mechanism driving this effect.
These findings highlight anger's significant, yet previously unacknowledged, influence on the interplay between automatic and deliberative self-processes.