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Reconciling the Feelings‐as‐Information and Hedonic Contingency Models of How Mood Influences Systematic Information Processing 1
Author(s) -
Côtè Stèphane
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02189.x
Subject(s) - psychology , mood , feeling , task (project management) , contingency , social psychology , process (computing) , information processing , cognitive psychology , affect (linguistics) , computer science , communication , linguistics , philosophy , management , economics , operating system
Recent research suggests that moods influence the way people process information in applied settings. There is an ongoing debate, however, about the mechanisms by which mood influences the way information is processed. The present research explored the possibility that task goals, hedonic expectations of the task, and mood interact to predict systematic information processing. The present study hypothesized and found, using a thought‐listing measure of systematic information processing, that (a) consistent with the feelings‐as‐information model, individuals in an unpleasant mood process information systematically, regardless of task goals and hedonic expectations; (b) also consistent with the feelings‐as‐information model, individuals in a pleasant mood fail to process information systematically under a performance task goal, regardless of hedonic expectations; and (c) consistent with the hedonic contingency model, individuals in a pleasant mood process information systematically under an enjoyment task goal for tasks expected to be pleasant, but not for tasks expected to be unpleasant.