Mood as information: 20 years later.
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nominated as a “modern classic ” was a great mood induction, one that brightened our day even though the cause was salient. However, responding to the editors’ request to tell the “inside story ” of the studies we conducted 2 decades ago turned out to be a challenging exercise in collaborative reconstructive memory. In retrospect, the “story ” of our studies seems utterly smooth and our failure to remember disappointing pretests, or bad results that sent us back to the drawing board, stands in stark contrast to our memories of other lines of research, making us wonder if we forgot all the complications or were indeed just plain lucky. We first summarize our recollections and subsequently address theoretical developments. Behind the Scenes We conducted the experiments reported in
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Most negative emotions or moods will cause a tendency to withdraw and stop whatever the person is doing at that moment in order to analyze the situation more carefully, or cause them to abandon the shopping process entirely if negative affect or emotions are not attenuated.
“Consequently, most negative emotions or moods will cause a tendency to withdraw and stop whatever the person is doing at that moment in order to analyze the situation more carefully (Schwarz and Clore, 2003; Moors, 2016), or cause them to abandon the shopping process entirely (Louro et al., 2007; Fishbach et al., 2010) if negative affect or emotions are not attenuated.”
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Positive emotions often signal that an activity is safe, or valuable and achievable, which causes people to continue with it.
“positive emotions often signal that an activity is safe (Schwarz and Clore, 2003), or valuable and achievable (Louro et al., 2007; Fishbach et al., 2010), which causes people to continue with it.”
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- Authors
- Schwarz, N., & Clore, G. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- ORCID
- Schwarz, Norbert
- Venue
- Psychological Inquiry
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 296-303
- ISSN
- 1047-840X (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7965
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- Psychological Inquiry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- mood induction, mood-congruent memory, memory reconstruction, autobiographical memory, emotion and memory
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