Happiness as a Belief System: Individual Differences and Priming in Emotion Judgments
| Autor: | Ben S. Kirkeby, Michael D. Robinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Culture Happiness 050109 social psychology Personal Satisfaction Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Judgment Memory Humans Semantic memory 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Subjective well-being media_common Self 05 social sciences Life satisfaction Affect Female Psychology Social psychology Priming (psychology) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 31:1134-1144 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7433 0146-1672 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0146167204274081 |
| Popis: | Three studies involving 104 undergraduates sought to examine how an individual’s level of life satisfaction organizes their knowledge concerning the self’s emotions. Participants judged the self’s positive and negative emotions within a computerized task. Key results sought to determine whether judging two positive emotions in a consecutive sequence speeds the second judgment—a pattern of priming that would suggest a tighter, more interconnected structure in semantic memory related to one’s positive emotions. As expected, individual differences in life satisfaction predicted the magnitude of this priming effect (Studies 1 & 2), which appeared to be unique to judgments of the self’s emotions (Study 3). The results indicate that happy, relative to less happy, individuals organize information concerning their positive emotions in a qualitatively different and tighter semantic manner. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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