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Revitalising mood-as-input research: Where is the theory and what are the real applications?

Revitalising mood-as-input research: Where is the theory and what are the real applications?. Graham Davey University of Sussex, UK. What is mood-as-input?. The extent to which someone performs a task differs as a function of both their mood and stop rule

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Revitalising mood-as-input research: Where is the theory and what are the real applications?

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  1. Revitalising mood-as-input research: Where is the theory and what are the real applications? Graham Davey University of Sussex, UK

  2. What is mood-as-input? • The extent to which someone performs a task differs as a function of both their mood and stop rule • The same moods can have different implications for task performance depending on the context or stop rule in which the mood is experienced • moods convey information as part of a configural processing system

  3. Stop Rules • ‘As many as can’ (AMA) • ‘Feel like continuing’ (FL)

  4. A Configural View of Task Perseveration + = AMA

  5. The 2 x 2 DesignMartin, Ward, Achee & Wyer (1993)

  6. Applications to Psychopathology • Pathological Worrying • Compulsive Checking • Depressive Rumination • Perseverative Dieting • Perseverative Gambling

  7. Important Considerations • AMA/NEG or FL/POS configurations? • Is there evidence for the validity of AMA/NEG combinations? • What task do we use? • Does the task have ecological validity? • How do we measure perseveration? • What control conditions do we need? • How do we manipulate and control mood?

  8. Pathological Worrying(Startup & Davey, 2001)

  9. The effect of different stop rules on catastrophising in high & low worriers(Startup & Davey, 2001)

  10. Perseverative CheckingMacDonald & Davey (2005a)number of checks

  11. Perseverative CheckingMacDonald & Davey (2005a)Highest number of rechecks on a single line

  12. Manipulating ResponsibilityMacDonald & Davey (2005b)Total time spent checking

  13. Depressive Rumination(Hawksley & Davey, 2009)

  14. Perseverative Gambling • ‘continue to play until you feel that you have done as well as you can’ (AMA condition) • ‘stop playing when you no longer feel like continuing’ (FLC condition)

  15. Results

  16. Some Critical Issues • Are mood-as-input effects robust? • Do all combinations of mood + stop rule have ecological validity? • Are mood and stop rule genuinely independent? • Why do individuals in an AMA/Negative Mood condition eventually stop?

  17. Are Mood & Stop Rule Independent? • Negative mood induces higher performance standards (Scott & Cervone, 2002) • Negative mood promotes a more systematic and deliberate information-processing style than positive mood (Ambady & Gray, 2002; Batra & Stayman, 1990) • Specific negative moods are associated with specific appraisals (Tiedens & Linton, 2001)

  18. Intention to Resolve WorriesDavey & MacDonald, 2009, unpublished

  19. Endorsement of AMA or FL worry stop rules

  20. Negative Mood & Stop Rules for CheckingBritton & Davey, 2009, unpublished

  21. Why do worriers eventually stop?Davey, Eldridge, Drost & MacDonald, 2007

  22. Are Mood-as-input effects caused by a Mood-as-input mechanism? • Configural interactions between mood and stop rule • Attribution effects • Mood intensity effects • Cognitive load effects • Failure to use Objective Evidence • Testing the role of mood information with complex stop rules • Use of specific, discrete negative moods • Alexthymia

  23. Mood-as-input and Specific Negative MoodsMeeten & Davey, 2009

  24. Applications – Developing a Low Intensity Intervention for WorryingJones & Davey, 2009-11 • Focus Group Sessions: • How do we notice when we’re worrying • The pros and cons of stopping worrying • Noticing Stop Rules and Mood • The impact of Mood • Changing stop rules • Overcoming Barriers

  25. Concluding Thoughts • Mood-as-input can be applied to perseveration at a broad range of tasks • What is the mechanism that underlies mood-as-input effects? • What are the parameters within which mood-as-input effects can be expected? • How relevant is mood-as-input to clinical phenomena?

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