TY - JOUR
T1 - Mood and Lexical Access of Positive, Negative, and Neutral Words
AU - Chastain, Garvin
AU - Seibert, Pennie S.
AU - Ferraro, F. Richard
PY - 1995/4/1
Y1 - 1995/4/1
N2 - Two experiments based upon the Reicher task were conducted to investigate the influence of happy, sad, and neutral moods on the processing of positive, negative, and neutral words. In Experiment 1 participants showed least advantage in determining which of two one-letter-different words, in comparison with nonword controls, had been presented for words that were valenced in congruence with the induced mood. In Experiment 2 mood acted as a prime that produced a detrimental effect of presenting nontarget mood-congruent preview words on participants' performance on the valenced targets. The authors contend that these effects are related to mood’s altering of the baseline activation levels of congruently valenced word nodes in the mental lexicon as well as to mood’s narrowing of the spatial focus of attention.
AB - Two experiments based upon the Reicher task were conducted to investigate the influence of happy, sad, and neutral moods on the processing of positive, negative, and neutral words. In Experiment 1 participants showed least advantage in determining which of two one-letter-different words, in comparison with nonword controls, had been presented for words that were valenced in congruence with the induced mood. In Experiment 2 mood acted as a prime that produced a detrimental effect of presenting nontarget mood-congruent preview words on participants' performance on the valenced targets. The authors contend that these effects are related to mood’s altering of the baseline activation levels of congruently valenced word nodes in the mental lexicon as well as to mood’s narrowing of the spatial focus of attention.
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/psych_facpubs/180
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1995.9921228
M3 - Article
JO - The Journal of General Psychology
JF - The Journal of General Psychology
ER -