Sometimes happy people focus on the trees and sad people focus on the forest: Context-dependent effects of mood in impression formation

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 220-232

  Hunsinger, Matthew ^a   Isbell, Linda M ^b   Clore, Gerald L ^c  

^a MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

affect and cognition; impression formation; mood; person perception

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856194883     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211424166     Document Type: Article

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