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Effects of mood and knowledge on evaluations: An experimental study
Author(s) -
HEIDE MORTEN,
GRØNHAUG KJELL
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1993.tb01107.x
Subject(s) - psychology , mood , negative mood , object (grammar) , impression formation , social psychology , clinical psychology , social perception , perception , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
An experimental study was conducted to estimate the impact of subjects' mood states on their responses to evaluative ratings. Four experimental groups were induced by either a very negative, mildly negative, neutral or positive mood‐inducing film. As hypothesized, systematic differences were found between the groups in their evaluations. Factual knowledge about the evaluation object was, contrary to expected, not found to modify mood effects. This negative finding could, however, be explained by a strong stereotypical impression of the object (a distant travel destination) held by the respondents.