Mood effects on emotion recognition

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_6DE839379D75
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Mood effects on emotion recognition
Journal
Motivation and Emotion
Author(s)
Schmid P. C., Schmid Mast M.
ISSN
0146-7239
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
34
Number
3
Pages
288-292
Language
english
Abstract
Mood affects memory and social judgments. However, findings are inconsistent with regard to how mood affects emotion recognition: For sad moods, general performance decrements in emotion recognition have been reported, as well as an emotion specific bias, such as better recognition of sad facial expressions compared to happy expressions (negative bias). Far less research has been conducted on the influence of happy moods on emotion recognition. We primed 93 participants with happy, sad, or neutral moods and had them perform an emotion recognition task. Results showed a negative bias for participants in sad moods and a positive bias for participants in happy moods. Sad and happy moods hampered the recognition of mood-incongruent expressions; the recognition of mood-congruent expressions was not affected by moods.
Keywords
Mood, Emotion recognition, Positive and negative biases
Web of science
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20/08/2019 14:27
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