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Mood effects on emotion recognition

Schmid, Petra ; Schmid Mast, Marianne

In: Motivation and Emotion, 2010, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 288-292

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    Titre
    • Mood effects on emotion recognition
    Auteur
    • Schmid, Petra. Institut de Psychology du Travail et des Organisations, Université de Neuchâtel, Rue de la Maladière, 23, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    • Schmid Mast, Marianne. Institut de Psychology du Travail et des Organisations, Université de Neuchâtel, Rue de la Maladière, 23, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Motivation and Emotion, 2010, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 288-292. Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:321700
    Summary
    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