Mood and Global-Local Focus: Priming a Local Focus Reverses the Link Between Mood and Global-Local Processing

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 722-726

  Huntsinger, Jeffrey R ^a   Clore, Gerald L ^b   Bar Anan, Yoav ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive processing; Emotion; Global local focus; Mood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 78249237872     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019356     Document Type: Article

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