Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Emotion. 2011 Dec;11(6):1474-8. doi: 10.1037/a0023855. Epub 2011 Jun 27.
Emotional states are known to influence how people process relevant information. Here, we address the impact of emotional state on irrelevant information. In this experiment, participants were randomly assigned to a neutral or positive mood induction, and then completed a task that involved viewing a sequence of overlapping pictures and words. They were instructed to attend to the pictures and ignore the distracting words. Following a filled interval, implicit memory for the distracting words was tested using a word fragment completion task. Individuals in the positive mood group showed increased implicit memory for previously irrelevant information compared to those in the neutral mood group. These findings are consistent with the view that positive mood broadens attention to include encoding of irrelevant information in the environment, and this can impact subsequent performance.
情绪状态已知会影响人们处理相关信息的方式。在这里，我们探讨了情绪状态对不相关信息的影响。在这个实验中，参与者被随机分配到中性或积极的情绪诱导中，然后完成一项涉及观看一系列重叠图片和文字的任务。他们被指示关注图片并忽略分散注意力的文字。在填充间隔之后，使用单词片段完成任务测试对分散注意力的文字的内隐记忆。与中性情绪组相比，积极情绪组的个体对先前不相关的信息表现出增强的内隐记忆。这些发现与积极情绪拓宽注意力以包括环境中不相关信息的编码的观点一致，这可能会影响后续的表现。
