The Effects of Mood on Emotion Recognition and its Relationship with the Global vs Local Information Processing Styles

Victoria Ovsyannikova ()
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Victoria Ovsyannikova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This study examines the effect of mood on emotion recognition and the relationship of mood, emotion recognition and information processing styles. This study hypothesized that a positive mood promotes a global processing style, associated with more efficient emotion recognition. In this study, subjects’ eye movements were analyzed to measure global versus local processing styles. The results suggest that people in a positive mood recognize happiness expression more slowly than those in a neutral mood. Participants’ processing styles were not related to emotion recognition speed. The findings clarify mechanisms of efficient emotion recognition.

Keywords: emotion recognition; mood induction; congruency effect; global and local information processing styles; eye movements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2016
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Psychology / PSY, April 2016, pages 1-15

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