PSY331H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mind
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Jeffrey r. huntsinger, gerald l. clore and yoav bar-anan. Mood and global local focus: priming a local focus reverses the link between. Discovered that positive affect empowered whatever focus was momentarily dominant. Whether individuals in happy moods saw the forest or the trees depended only on which of the two had been primed. Important function of affect is its role in regulating cognitive processing. One recurring theme in this literature is that people in positive moods tend to focus on the forest, and those in negative moods focus on the trees. Most explanations for this link suggest that positive and negative affect are uniquely dedicated to global and local orientations, respectively. If this is the case, then experiments that make a local focus more accessible than a global focus should reverse the usual relation between mood and global local orientation. First, they completed an initial computer task that constituted the priming of global local processing styles.
