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01-07-2014 | Original Article

Effects of positive mood on attention broadening for self-related information

Auteurs: Maud Grol, Ernst H. W. Koster, Lynn Bruyneel, Rudi De Raedt

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2014

Abstract

Studies on cognitive effects of positive emotions have associated positive emotions to broadened attention. Given the widely investigated relationship between self-focused attention and mood, it is important to investigate the effect of positive mood on visuospatial attention for self-related information. We used a performance-based measure to assess fluctuations in attentional broadening from self-related contrasted to not-self-related information. In Experiment 1, we checked that the self-related versus not-self-related stimuli did not evoke differential attention effects in general. In Experiment 2, we manipulated mood and found that an increase in positive mood was associated with a relative broadening of attention for self-related information. These results suggest that the meaning of the target of attention provides an interesting dimension for further investigation into the relation between positive emotions and attentional broadening.

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We checked that none of the participants’ name initials was LR.

We considered using participants’ own initials, but this is problematic as this introduces perceptual variance across participants. Moreover, some letters may be more familiar or form a word which could cause differences in attentional breadth for reasons other than mood. Finally, some name initials will consist of more than two letters and because the control initials have to match the length of the experimental stimulus, using stimuli of different length across participants, would again introduce perceptual variance across participants.

Results of the analysis without correcting for baseline mood yielded similar results, F(1,52) = 10.28, p = .002, η _p² = .16.

The change in positive mood was also correlated with the single accuracy scores on the peripheral task in both Word conditions (i.e. ME-close, ME-far, LR-close, LR-far trials). Results showed that an increase in positive mood was significantly associated with an increase in accuracy for localizing the target stimulus when it appeared far from the central stimulus in both the self condition, r = .36, p = .008, and in the not-self condition, r = .30, p = .024. An increase in positive mood was also correlated with an increase in accuracy for localizing the target stimulus when it appeared close to the central stimulus in the not-self condition, r = .30, p = .024.

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Titel: Effects of positive mood on attention broadening for self-related information
Auteurs: Maud Grol
Ernst H. W. Koster
Lynn Bruyneel
Rudi De Raedt
Publicatiedatum: 01-07-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-013-0508-6

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