Positive mood boosts the expression of a dispositional need for closure

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1181-1201

  Kossowska, Małgorzata ^a   Bar Tal, Yoram ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ability to achieve closure; Heuristic processing; Need for closure; Positive mood; Schema inconsistent information

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NEED FOR CLOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84885034066     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.778817     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Abele, A., & Gendolla, G. H. E. (1999). Satisfaction judgments in positive and negative moods: Effects of concurrent assimilation and contrast producing processes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 893-905. doi: 10.1177/0146167299025007010
2. Abele, A., Gendolla, G. H. R, & Petzold, P. (1998). Positive mood and ingroup-outgroup differentiation in a minimal group paradigm. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1343-1357. doi: 10.1177/01461672982412008
3. Abele, A., & Petzold, P. (1994). How does mood operate in an impression formation task? An information integration approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 173-187. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2420240113
4. Ashby, F. G., Isen, A. M., & Turken, U. (1999). A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition. Psychological Review, 106, 529-550. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.106.3.529
5. Bar-Tal, Y. (1994). The effect on mundane decision-making of need and ability to achieve cognitive structure. European Journal of Personality, 8, 45-58. doi: 10.1002/per.2410080105
6. Bar-Tal, Y. (2010). When the need for cognitive structure does not cause heuristic thinking: The moderating effect of the perceived ability to achieve cognitive structure. Psychology, 1, 96-105. doi: 10.4236/psych.2010.12013
7. Bar-Tal, Y., Kishon-Rabin, L., & Tabak, N. (1997). The effect of need and ability to achieve cognitive structuring on cognitive structuring. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1158-1176. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.6.1158
8. Bar-Tal, Y., & Kossowska, M. (2010). Efficacy at fulfilling the need for closure: The construct and its measure. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Personality traits: Classification, effects and changes (pp. 47-64). New York, NY: Nova Science.
9. Beedie, C., Terry, P., & Lane, A. (2005). Distinctions between emotion and mood. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 847-878. doi: 10.1080/02699930541000057
10. Bless, H., Bohner, G., Schwarz, N., & Strack, F. (1990). Mood and persuasion: A cognitive response analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 331-345. doi: 10.1177/0146167290162013
11. Bless, H., Hamilton, D., & Mackie, D. (1992). Mood effects on the organization of person information. European Journal of Social Psychology, 22, 497-509. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2420220507
12. Bless, H., Schwarz, N., Clore, G. L., Golisano, V., Rabe, C., & Wölk, M. (1996). Mood and the use of scripts: Does a happy mood really lead to mindlessness? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 665-79. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.4.665
13. Bless, H., Schwarz, N., & Wieland, R. (1996). Mood and the impact of category membership and individuating information. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 935-959. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199611)26:6%3C935::AID-EJSP798%3E3.0.CO;2-N
14. Bodenhausen, G. V. (1990). Stereotypes as judgmental heuristics. Evidence of circadian variations in discrimination. Psychological Science, 1, 319-322. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00226.x
15. Bodenhausen, G. V., Kramer, G. P., & Süsser, K. (1994). Happiness and stereotypic thinking in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 621-632. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.66.4.621
16. Bohner, G., Moskowitz, G. B., & Chaiken, S. (1995). The interplay of heuristic and systematic processing of social information. European Review of Social Psychology, 6, 33-68. doi: 10.1080/14792779443000003
17. Bohner, G., & Schwarz, N. (1993). Mood states influence the production of persuasive arguments. Communication Research, 20, 695-722. doi: 10.1177/009365093020005004
18. Bradley, M. M., Codispoti, M., Cuthbert, B. N., & Lang, P. J. (2001). Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. Emotion, 1, 276-298. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.1.3.276
19. Calvo, M., & Avero, P. (2009). Reaction time normative data for the IAPS as a function of display time, gender, and picture content. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 184-191. doi: 10.3758/BRM.41.1.184
20. Cervone, D., Kopp, D. A., Schaumann, L., & Scott, W. D. (1994). Mood self-efficacy and performance standards: Lower moods induce higher standards for performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 499-512. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.67.3.499
21. Chaiken, S. (1980). Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 752-766. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.39.5.752
22. Chirumbolo, A., Mannetti, L., Pierro, A., Areni, A., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2005). Motivated closed mindedness and creativity in small groups. Small Group Research, 36, 59-82. doi: 10.1177/1046496404268535
23. Clore, G., & Huntsinger, J. R. (2009). How the objects of affect guide its impact. Emotion Review, 1, 39-54. doi: 10.1177/1754073908097185
24. Clore, G. L., Wyer, R. S., Dienes, B., Gasper, K., Gohm, C. L., & Isbell, L. (2001). Affective feelings as feedback: Some cognitive consequences. In L. L. Martin & G. L. Clore (Eds.), Theories of mood and cognition: A user's handbook (pp. 27-62). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
25. Colden, A., Bruder, M., & Manstead, A. (2008). Human content in affect-inducing stimuli: A secondary analysis of the international affective picture system. Motivation & Emotion, 32, 260-269. doi: 10.1007/s11031-008-9107-z
26. Cunningham, M. R. (1988). What do you do when you're happy or blue? Mood, expectancies, and behavioral interest. Motivation & Emotion, 12, 309-331. doi: 10.1007/BF00992357
27. Das, E., & Fennis, B. M. (2008). In the mood to face the fact: When a positive mood promotes systematic processing of self-threatening information. Motivation & Emotion, 32, 221-230. doi: 10.1007/s11031-008-9093-1
28. Dijksterhuis, A., van Knippenberg, A., Kruglanski, A. W., & Schaper, C. (1996). Motivated social cognition: Need for closure effects on memory and judgment. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, 32, 254-270. doi: 10.1006/jesp.1996.0012
29. Fiske, S. (1993). Social cognition and social perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 44, 155-194. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.001103
30. Forgas, J. P. (1994). Sad and guilty? Affective influence on the explanation of conflict episodes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 56-68. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.66.1.56
31. Förster, J. (2009). Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: How global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 88-111. doi: 10.1037/a0014484
32. Frost, R., & Green, M. (1982). Velten mood induction procedure effects: Duration and postexperimental removal. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 341-347. doi: 10.1177/0146167282082024
33. Gasper, K., & Clore, G. (2002). Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science, 13, 34-40. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00406
34. Gendolla, G. (2000). On the impact of mood on behavior: An integrative theory and a review. Review of General Psychology, 4, 378-408. doi: 10.1037/1089-2680.4.4.378
35. Gendolla, G., & Krüsken, J. (2002). The joint effect of informational mood impact and performance-contingent consequences on effort-related cardiovascular response. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 271-283. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.2.271
36. Gerrards-Hesse, A., & Spies, K. (1994). Experimental inductions of emotional states and their effectiveness: A review. British Journal of Psychology, 85, 55-79. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1994.tb02508.x
37. Gomez, P., Zimmermann, P., Schär, S., & Danuser, B. (2009). Valence lasts longer than arousal: Persistence of induced moods as assessed by psychophysiological measures. Journal of Psychophysiology, 23, 7-17. doi: 10.1027/0269-8803.23.1.7
38. Gordon, S., & Wyer, R. (1987). Person memory: Category-set-size effects on the recall of a person's behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 648-662. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.53.4.648
39. Hagenaars, M., Stins, J., & Roelofs, K. (2012). Aversive life events enhance human freezing responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 98-105. doi: 10.1037/a0024211
40. Hastie, R., & Kumar, P. (1979). Person memory: Personality traits as organizing principles in memory for behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 25-38. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.37.1.25
41. Huntsinger, J., Clore, G., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2010). Mood and global-local focus: Priming a local focus reverses the link between mood and global-local processing. Emotion, 10, 722-726. doi: 10.1037/a0019356
42. Isen, A. M. (1987). Positive affect, cognitive processes, and social behavior. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 20, 203-253.
43. Isen, A. M. (2001). An influence of positive affect on decision making in complex situations: Theoretical issues with practical implications. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 11, 75-85. doi: 10.1207/S15327663JCP1102_01
44. Isen, A. M., Daubman, K. A., & Nowicki, G. P. (1987). Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1122-1131. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1122
45. Isen, A., & Gorgoglione, J. (1983). Some specific effects of four affect-induction procedures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 136-143. doi: 10.1177/0146167283091019
46. Kossowska, M. (2003). Różnice indywidualne w motywacji poznawczej [Individual differences in cognitive motivation]. Przegla{ogonek}d Psychologiczny, 46, 355-375.
47. Kossowska, M., & Bar-Tal, Y. (in press). Need for closure and heuristic information processing: The moderating role of the ability to achieve the need for closure. British Journal of Psychology. 10.1111/bjop.12001
48. Kruglanski, A. W. (1996). Goals as knowledge structures. In P. Gollwitzer & J. Bargh (Eds.), The psychology of action (pp. 599-619). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
49. Kruglanski, A. W., Dechesne, M., Orehek, E., & Pierro, A. (2009). Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation. European Review of Social Psychology, 20, 146-191. doi: 10.1080/10463280902860037
50. Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing". Psychological Review, 103, 263-283. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.2.263
51. Lang, P. (1995). The emotion probe: Studies of motivation and attention. American Psychologist, 50, 372-385. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.50.5.372
52. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (2005). International Affective Picture System (IAPS): Technical manual and affective ratings. Gainesville, FL: The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida.
53. Mackie, D., & Worth, L. (1989). Processing deficits and the mediation of positive affect in persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 27-40. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.57.1.27
54. Maheswaran, D., & Chaiken, S. (1991). Promoting systematic processing in low-motivation settings: Effect of incongruent information on processing and judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 13-25. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.61.1.13
55. Martin, L. L., Ward, D. W., Achee, J. W., & Wyer, R. S. (1993). Mood as input: People have to interpret the motivational implications of their moods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 317-326. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.64.3.317
56. Mendonça-de-Souza, C., Souza, G., Vieira, A., Fischer, N., Souza, W., Rumjanek, V., Volczan, E. (2007). Negative affect as a predisposing factor for cortisol release after an acute stress-The impact of unpleasant priming. Stress, 10, 362-367. doi: 10.1080/10253890701379999
57. Murray, N., Sujan, H., Hirt, E. R., & Sujan, M. (1990). The influence of mood on categorization: A cognitive flexibility interpretation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 411-425. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.59.3.411
58. Neuberg, S. L., & Newsom, J. T. (1993). Personal need for structure: Individual differences in the desire for simple structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 113-131. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.65.1.113
59. Neumann, R., & Lozo, L. (2012). Priming the activation of fear and disgust: Evidence for semantic processing. Emotion, 12, 223-228. doi: 10.1037/a0026500
60. Patrick, C. J., & Lavoro, S. A. (1997). Ratings of emotional response to pictorial stimuli: Positive and negative affect. Motivation & Emotion, 21, 297-321. doi: 10.1023/A:1024432322584
61. Raghunathan, R., & Trope, Y. (2002). Walking the tightrope between feeling good and being accurate: Mood as a resource in processing persuasive messages. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 510-525. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.3.510
62. Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2007). Separating ability from need: Clarifying the dimensional structure of the need for closure scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 266-280. doi: 10.1177/0146167206294744
63. Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the Need for Closure Scale. Personality & Individual Differences, 50, 90-94. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.004
64. Rubinstein, G. (2003). Authoritarianism and its relation to creativity: A comparative study among students of design, behavioral sciences and law. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 695-705. doi: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00055-7
65. Russell, J., & Barrett, L. (1999). Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 76, 805-819. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.5.805
66. Schneider, W., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention. Psychological Review, 84, 1-66. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.84.1.1
67. Schwarz, N. (1990). Feelings as information: Informational and motivational functions of affective states. In R. M. Sorrentino & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition: Foundations of social behavior (Vol. 2, pp. 527-561). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
68. Schwarz, N., & Clore, G. L. (2003). Mood as information: 20 years later. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 296-303.
69. Srull, T. (1981). Person memory: Some tests of associative storage and retrieval models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 7, 440-463. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.7.6.440
70. Strack, F., Schwarz, N., & Gschneidinger, E. (1985). Happiness and reminiscing: The role of time perspective, affect, and mode of thinking. Journal of Personality and Social psychology, 49, 1460-1469. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.49.6.1460
71. Thompson, M. M., Naccarato, M. E., Parker, K. C. H., & Moskowitz, G. B. (2001). The personal need for structure and personal fear of invalidity measures: Historical perspectives, current applications, and future directions. In G. B. Moskowitz (Ed.), Cognitive social psychology: The Princeton symposium on the legacy and future of social cognition (pp. 19-39). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
72. Vermeir, I., Van Kenhove, P., & Hendrickx, H. (2002). The influence of need for closure on consumer choice behaviour. Journal of Economic Psychology, 23, 703-727. doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(02)00135-6
73. Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS Scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 1063-1070. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.54.6.1063
74. Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 1049-1062. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.67.6.1049
75. Westermann, R., Spies, K., Stahl, G., & Hesse, F. (1996). Relative effectiveness and validity of mood induction procedures: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 557-580. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199607)26:4%3C557::AID-EJSP769%3E3.0.CO;2-4