Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Fachbereich Psychologie, Tübingen, Germany.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2013 Apr;39(4):482-95. doi: 10.1177/0146167213478020. Epub 2013 Feb 22.
Existing research has established the effects of mood on processing of clearly mood-elevating proattitudinal messages and clearly mood-threatening counterattitudinal messages (i.e., mood-relevant messages). Little is known, however, about mood effects on processing of less mood-elevating proattitudinal messages and less mood-threatening counterattitudinal messages (i.e., mood-irrelevant messages). The present research tested hypotheses regarding processing of mood-irrelevant messages based on a mood-congruent expectancies approach. Specifically, two studies were conducted in which prior attitudes were measured (Study 1) or manipulated (Study 2). As predicted, results showed higher scrutiny in negative mood given a proattitudinal message and in positive mood given a counterattitudinal message than in negative mood given a counterattitudinal message and in positive mood given a proattitudinal message. Discussion focuses on implications regarding the accumulated literature, different accounts proposed to understand mood effects on processing effort, and further research.
现有研究已经确定了情绪对处理明显情绪提升的亲态度信息和明显情绪威胁的反态度信息（即情绪相关信息）的影响。然而，对于处理情绪提升程度较低的亲态度信息和情绪威胁程度较低的反态度信息（即情绪不相关信息）的情绪影响，我们知之甚少。本研究基于情绪一致期望方法，对情绪不相关信息的处理提出了假设。具体来说，进行了两项研究，其中一项研究测量了先前的态度（研究 1），另一项研究则操纵了态度（研究 2）。正如预测的那样，结果表明，在积极情绪下给出亲态度信息时，以及在消极情绪下给出反态度信息时，比在积极情绪下给出反态度信息和在消极情绪下给出亲态度信息时，人们会更加仔细地审查信息。讨论集中于对累积文献的意义、理解情绪对处理努力影响的不同解释，以及进一步的研究。
