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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Claypool, Heather M.
• Hall, Carrie E.
• Mackie, Diane M.
• Garcia-Marques, Teresa

Titel

Positive mood, attribution, and the illusion of familiarity

Ist Teil von

• Journal of experimental social psychology, 2008-05, Vol.44 (3), p.721-728

Ort / Verlag

San Diego, CA: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We investigated the positivity–cues–familiarity effect and the hypothesis that it is caused by a misattribution of positivity to a sense of familiarity. Participants were put in a positive or neutral mood state, and then either did or did not complete a mood-manipulation check question. Participants then rendered old/new judgments of stimuli to which they allegedly had been subliminally exposed. When participants did not complete the mood-manipulation check question, and thus the source of their affect was unclear, they showed the positivity–cues–familiarity effect: those in a positive mood identified more of the stimuli as old than did those in a neutral mood. However, those who had completed the mood-manipulation check question, and for whom the source of their affect was obvious, did not show the positivity–cues–familiarity effect. These findings support the notion that a misattribution process is responsible for the positivity–cues–familiarity effect.