AN INFLUENCE OF POSITIVE AFFECT ON SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION

被引:160
作者
ISEN, AM [1 ]
NIEDENTHAL, PM [1 ]
CANTOR, N [1 ]
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[1] JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,BALTIMORE,MD 21218
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10.1007/BF00996487
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study investigated the influence of positive affect on social categorization. Subjects in whom positive affect had been induced, and control subjects, were asked to indicate the degree to which good and weak examples of positive and negative person categories fit those categories. Positive-affect subjects rated weak exemplars of positive, but not of negative, trait categories as better members of the categories than did control subjects. Results are interpreted as consistent with a growing literature suggesting that positive affect may involve increased cognitive flexibility in the way people relate positive or neutral ideas to one another, and increased access to multiple meanings of nonnegative cognitive material.
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