Journal
COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 21-30Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.03.002
Keywords
Affective computing; Emotion; Affect; Judgment; Cognitive processing; Believable agents
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health Research [MH-50094]
- National Science Foundation [BCS-0518835]
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How do emotions and moods color cognition? In this article, we examine how such reactions influence both judgments and cognitive performance. We argue that many affective influences are due, not to affective reactions themselves, but to the information they carry about value. The specific kind of influence that occurs depends on the focus of the agent at the time. When making evaluative judgments, for example, an agent's positive affect may emerge as a positive attitude toward a person or object. But when an agent focuses on a cognitive task, positive affect may act like feedback about the value of one's approach. As a result, positive affect tends to promote cognitive, relational processes, whereas negative affect tends to inhibit relational processing, resulting in more perceptual, stimulus-specific processing. As a consequence, many textbook phenomena from cognitive psychology occur readily in happy moods, but are inhibited or even absent in sad moods (149). (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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