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Announcements for March 16

Announcements for March 16. Announcements: Website will be available by Monday The URL of the page should be: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/88/120/ In the meantime, use the following URL: http://www.tek412.iwarp.com Today’s discussants: Liz, Margo, Justin 2 nd exam next week

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Announcements for March 16

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  1. Announcements for March 16 Announcements: • Website will be available by Monday • The URL of the page should be:http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/88/120/ • In the meantime, use the following URL:http://www.tek412.iwarp.com • Today’s discussants: Liz, Margo, Justin • 2nd exam next week • Paper outlines due week after break Week 9, Part 2

  2. Theoretical Accounts for Emotion Effects on Attribution • I. Informational (“Affect Priming”) Effect • Emotion can facilitate recall and use of mood-congruent information (Bower). • Evidence: • Happy people identify stable, internal causes when achieving and identify unstable, external causes when doing badly • Sad people show the reverse pattern (Forgas, Bower & Moylan, 1990). Week 9, Part 2

  3. Theoretical Accounts for Emotion Effects on Attribution • II. Processing Effect • Good moods Heuristic processing • Top down, global, processing • More attention to categorical information (e.g., famous name of speech writer) • Not necessarily bad to be heuristic (Isen’s work) • Bad moods  Systematic processing • Bottom up, detailed, processing • More attention to specific information (e.g., content of speech) How would this processing effect relate to FAE? Week 9, Part 2

  4. How Does Processing Effect Relate to FAE? • Assuming attribution is a two-stage process… • Explain behavior in terms of salient dispositional info.(“correspondent inference”) • Correct initial explanation (if motivated to do so) by factoring in situation. • Heuristic processing would amplify FAE Week 9, Part 2

  5. What Explains the Processing Effect? • Functional Explanations (e.g., Frijda) • Emotions serve a “signaling function” – telling us what needs our attention (and what does not) • Good moods recruit our attention to solve problems, bad moods do not. • Motivational Explanations • Processing Capacity Explanations Week 9, Part 2

  6. Three Explanations for Processing Effect, (Cont.) • Motivational Theories (Clark & Isen, 1982) • Mood maintenance - Happy people try to preserve good mood by avoiding cognitive effort • Mood repair – Sad people try to fix mood by devoting more effort to solving problems Week 9, Part 2

  7. Three Explanations, (Cont.) • Processing Capacity Theories • Positive and/or high-arousal moods may impair processing capacity. Week 9, Part 2

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