TY - JOUR
T1 - Attending to the big picture
T2 - Mood and global versus local processing of visual information
AU - Gasper, Karen
AU - Clore, Gerald L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant SBR 96–01298, National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH 50074, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant (32005–0) to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. We thank Margaret Kosman, Angela Scarpaci, Carrie Grady, Nerissa Beltran, Matt Gelsthorpe, Sarah Oschack, Adam Joncich, Irene Piven, Diana Risotto, Sarah Riley, and Rachel Malis for assistance in data collection and coding.
PY - 2002/1
Y1 - 2002/1
N2 - Two experiments employed image-based tasks to test the hypothesis that happier moods promote a greater focus on the forest and sadder moods a greater focus on the trees. The hypothesis was based on the idea that in task situations, affective cues may be experienced as task-relevant information, which then influences global versus local attention. Using a serial-reproduction paradigm, Experiment 1 showed that individuals in sad moods were less likely than those in happier moods to use an accessible global concept to guide attempts to reproduce a drawing from memory. Experiment 2 investigated the same hypothesis by assessing the use of global and local attributes to classify geometric figures. As predicted, individuals in sad moods were less likely than those in happier moods to classify figures on the basis of global features.
AB - Two experiments employed image-based tasks to test the hypothesis that happier moods promote a greater focus on the forest and sadder moods a greater focus on the trees. The hypothesis was based on the idea that in task situations, affective cues may be experienced as task-relevant information, which then influences global versus local attention. Using a serial-reproduction paradigm, Experiment 1 showed that individuals in sad moods were less likely than those in happier moods to use an accessible global concept to guide attempts to reproduce a drawing from memory. Experiment 2 investigated the same hypothesis by assessing the use of global and local attributes to classify geometric figures. As predicted, individuals in sad moods were less likely than those in happier moods to classify figures on the basis of global features.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9280.00406
DO - 10.1111/1467-9280.00406
M3 - Article
C2 - 11892776
AN - SCOPUS:0036365636
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 13
SP - 34
EP - 40
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 1
ER -