Mood and Global-Local Focus: Priming a Local Focus Reverses the Link Between Mood and Global-Local Processing
Mood and Global-Local Focus: Priming a Local Focus Reverses the Link Between Mood and Global-Local Processing
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DOI：
10.1037/a0019356
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Bar-Anan, Yoav
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作者：
Huntsinger, Jeffrey R.;Clore, Gerald L.;Bar-Anan, Yoav
积极的情绪促进了对森林的关注(全球关注)，而负面情绪促进了对树木的关注(局部关注)。这一完善的链接是固定的还是可变的？它是像通常假设的那样，反映了情感的直接影响，还是经常被观察到，仅仅是因为全球视角往往占主导地位？如果影响作为有关当前可访问倾向性的值的信息，并且全局焦点通常是默认视角，则积极影响的全局焦点和负面影响的局部焦点可能是可变的，而不是固定的。两个实验使用不同的情绪诱导、不同的全局局部焦点测试以及不同的诱导全局视角和局部视角的方法来检验这一假设。在每一项研究中，我们都发现，积极的情绪赋予了任何暂时占主导地位的注意力。因此，心情愉快的人是看到了森林还是看到了树，只取决于两者中的哪一种已经做好了准备。
Positive moods promote a focus on the forest (global focus) and negative moods, a focus on the trees (local focus). Is this well-established link fixed or variable? Does it reflect a direct influence of affect, as usually assumed, or is it frequently observed simply because a global perspective is often dominant? If affect serves as information about the value of currently accessible inclinations, and a global focus is generally the default perspective, then the global focus of positive affect and local focus of negative affect might be variable rather than fixed. Two experiments tested this hypothesis using different mood inductions, different tests of global local focus, and different methods of inducing global and local perspectives. In each, we discovered that positive affect empowered whatever focus was momentarily dominant. Thus, whether individuals in happy moods saw the forest or the trees depended only on which of the two had been primed.