Influence Of Mood States Research Articles

Walking the tightrope between feeling good and being accurate: Mood as a resource in processing persuasive messages.

Three studies investigated the influence of mood states on the processing of positive and negative information regarding caffeine consumption and on the impact of this information on one's mood, attitudes, and intentions. The results were consistent with the predictions of the mood-as-a-resource hypothesis: First, the induction of positive mood in high (compared with low) caffeine consumers enhanced recall of negative information about caffeine consumption. Second, processing information about caffeine consumption undermined the positive mood of high (but not low) caffeine consumers. Third, the induction of positive mood enhanced the impact of negative information about caffeine on high (compared with low) caffeine consumers' attitudes and intentions toward caffeine consumption.

Induced mood states and the framing effect: a comparison of systematic and heuristic processing.

We investigated the influence of mood states on the framing effect on tasks that involve systematic processing and on a task that involves heuristic processing. On the systematic processing tasks, the framing effect was not exhibited under induced mood states, while on the heuristic processing task, the framing effect was exhibited under induced mood states. The relationship between mood states and the framing effect was discussed from the standpoint of an information-processing mechanism.

INDUCED MOOD STATES AND THE FRAMING EFFECT: A COMPARISON OF SYSTEMATIC AND HEURISTIC PROCESSING

We investigated the influence of mood states on the framing effect on tasks that involve systematic processing and on a task that involves heuristic processing. On the systematic processing tasks, the framing effect was not exhibited under induced mood states, while on the heuristic processing task, the framing effect was exhibited under induced mood states. The relationship between mood states and the framing effect was discussed from the standpoint of an information-processing mechanism.

Stability of memories of parental rearing among psychiatric inpatients

Information about childhood experiences, particularly parental rearing behaviour, is of importance in the clinical investigation of psychiatric patients and in research. As concerns assessment among adult individuals, it has the shortcoming that these data are exclusively retrospective by nature implying the risk of various biases. An influence of mood states, mostly depression, onto autobiographical memories has been established in different studies on the background of mood-dependent recall. Investigations by Gerlsma et al. have shown the independence of memories of parental rearing behaviour of significant changes in depressed mood. A consecutive sample of 162 psychiatric inpatients, mainly unipolar depressives, were investigated at admission and discharge by means of the EMBU (perceived parental rearing), the BDI and the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale in the present study. The results underline once again the high stability of reported parental rearing behaviour during significant clinical changes in severity of depression and more specific of depressive disorders during changes in dysfunctional attitudes. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Mood and heuristics: The influence of happy and sad states on sensitivity and bias in stereotyping.

The influence of mood states on the propensity to use heuristics as expressed in stereotypes was examined using signal detection statistics. Participants experienced happy, neutral, or sad moods and remembered whether names connoting race (African American, European American) belonged to social categories (criminal, politician, basketball player). Positive mood increased reliance on heuristics, indexed by higher false identification of members of stereotyped groups. Positive mood lowered sensitivity (d'), even among relative experts, and shifted bias (beta) or criterion to be more lenient for stereotypical names. In contrast, sad mood did not disrupt sensitivity and, in fact, revealed the use of a stricter criterion compared with baseline mood. Results support theories that characterize happy mood as a mental state that predisposes reliance on heuristics and sad mood as dampening such reliance.

Predictors of general activity 8 weeks after cardiac surgery

In this secondary analysis, the influence of mood states and self-efficacy beliefs on recovery of general activities 8 weeks after cardiac surgery were investigated. Study data were taken from a randomized clinical trial with 156 subjects who were either in an efficacy enhancement nursing care group (n = 75) or in a routine care group (n = 81). It was found that self-efficacy beliefs at time of hospitalization regarding ability to resume general activities after discharge, measured tension/anxiety at 4 weeks after surgery, and experimental group status explained 21% of the variation in self-reported recovery at 8 weeks.

Learning and retention of a daily activity schedule in a patient with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome

Abstract This study examined the ability of a memory-impaired patient with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome to learn and retain a schedule of daily activities. A letter-fragment cueing method was used as a teaching technique. Despite evidence of severe frontal lobe deficits and high levels of anxiety the patient showed a strong learning effect relative to baseline. In addition, considerable retention after termination of training was evident. When the activity schedule was altered, the patient learned the new information without direct training. Results are discussed in terms of the reported rigidity of domain-specific learning, the influence of mood states, and the spontaneous use of memory techniques.