The Effects of Mood on Emotion Recognition
Open Access
- Author:
- Matase, Christopher J
- Area of Honors:
- Letters, Arts, and Sciences (Abington)
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Dr. Jacob Arthur Benfield, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. David E Ruth, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- Mood
Emotion recognition
RME - Abstract:
- Moods can be defined as long-lasting affective states that are experienced without concurrent awareness of their origins and it influences how a person uses information activated in memory to make a conclusion about their surroundings (Hanson & Pettijohn, 2014). People base moods on what has been previously learned. They tend to feel happy when the emotion is linked to a positive experience and feel sad when the emotion is linked to a negative experience. The present studies have examined the effects of mood on emotion recognition. Study one focused on the differences of two groups, one was a control group where an emotion was pre-determined, and the other group was asked to write about the saddest time they had experienced. It was hypothesized that those who were primed with sadness would not perform well on a task as compared to those who were not primed. The second study accentuated the first study and involved the differences between men and women. This study hypothesized that there will be differences between the sexes of the participants and how they score on the emotion recognition task.