Journal article
Anxiety and impression formation: Direct information rather than priming explains affect-congruity
Cognition & Emotion, Vol.21(7), pp.1455-1469
2007
Abstract
Both affect-priming and affect-as-information theories predict that when people are anxious they will form affect-congruent impressions of others, but via different mechanisms. Affect-priming asserts that memory mediates the influence of anxiety on judgement, whereas affect-as-information asserts that people attribute anxiety to the target of judgement. As these theories predicted, anxious participants in Study 1 found an impression-formation target to be more threatening than did control participants. However, this effect was not mediated by memory, and was attenuated in Study 2 when anxious participants attributed their affect to a source other than the target. These findings suggest that anxious people form affect-congruent impressions of others because they attribute their anxiety to the impression formation target rather than because anxiety primes affect-congruent memory.
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- Title
- Anxiety and impression formation: Direct information rather than priming explains affect-congruity
- Authors/Creators
- G.J. Curtis (Author/Creator) - School of Psychological ScienceV. Locke (Author/Creator) - School of Psychological Science
- Publication Details
- Cognition & Emotion, Vol.21(7), pp.1455-1469
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Identifiers
- 991005542186807891
- Copyright
- 2007 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Psychology, Experimental
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