When necessity is the mother of invention: mood and problem solving

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Investigations were made on the hypothesis that individuals in sad moods adhere to the data and might not think about the problems in new ways until they receive data indicating that it is appropriate to do so. To investigate this hypothesis, participants in happy, sad, and neutral moods were asked to complete a classic mental set task- Luchins, 1942.

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Mood effects on eyewitness memory: Affective influences on susceptibility to misinformation

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A study was carried on eyewitness accuracy and the incorporation of misleading details into eyewitness memory in particular, to explore the influence of transient mood states. All the experiments showed that positive mood increased and negative mood decreased the tendency to incorporate misleading details into eyewitness accounts.

Australia, Psychological aspects, Cognition, Eyewitness identification

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On being sad and evasive: affective influences on verbal communication strategies in conflict situations

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Short-term moods may influence people's verbal communication strategies in conflict situations. A research is conducted to demonstrate that moods can have a systematic and predictable influence on verbal communication strategies such as the use of evasive, equivocal messages.

United States, Oral communication

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