PSY331H1 Chapter N/A: 12 - Mood and Global-Local Focus Priming a Local Focus Reverses the Link Between Mood and Global-Local Processing Summary.docx
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Mood and global-local focus: priming a local focus reverses the link. Huntsinger, clore, and bar-anan: positive mood promotes a focus on the forest (global) and negative mood promotes a focus on the trees (local). More conventional thinking: the link between positive/negative mood and global/local thinking may be more variable. They will therefore embrace or reject whatever thoughts/processing orientations that are accessible at that time. When a local focus was more accessible, people in positive moods would display a greater local focus. Completed more tasks: had letters shaped out of other letters. Asked to identify the letter l for example in the local. Press l if l was local, and h if h was local. For global, same but press if global: completed more blocks of letters identifying reaction times. If fast on seeing l make up the letter h, then saw it more as local.
