TY - JOUR
T1 - Does Affect Induce Self-Focused Attention?
AU - Wood, Joanne V.
AU - Saltzberg, Judith A.
AU - Goldsamt, Lloyd A.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1990/5
Y1 - 1990/5
N2 - Despite growing evidence that depression is linked with self-focused attention, little is known about how depressed individuals become self-focused or, more generally, about what arouses self-focus in everyday life. Two experiments examined the hypothesis that affect itself induces self-focused attention. In Experiment 1, moods were manipulated with an imagination mood-induction procedure. Sad-induction Ss became higher in self-focus than did neutral-induction Ss. Experiment 2 replicated this effect for sad moods by means of a musical mood-induction procedure and different measures of self-focus. However, Experiment 2 failed to support the hypothesis that happy moods induce self-focus. The results have implications for mood-induction research, self-focused attention, and recent models of depression.
AB - Despite growing evidence that depression is linked with self-focused attention, little is known about how depressed individuals become self-focused or, more generally, about what arouses self-focus in everyday life. Two experiments examined the hypothesis that affect itself induces self-focused attention. In Experiment 1, moods were manipulated with an imagination mood-induction procedure. Sad-induction Ss became higher in self-focus than did neutral-induction Ss. Experiment 2 replicated this effect for sad moods by means of a musical mood-induction procedure and different measures of self-focus. However, Experiment 2 failed to support the hypothesis that happy moods induce self-focus. The results have implications for mood-induction research, self-focused attention, and recent models of depression.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.58.5.899
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.58.5.899
M3 - Article
C2 - 2348375
AN - SCOPUS:0025428559
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 58
SP - 899
EP - 908
JO - Journal of personality and social psychology
JF - Journal of personality and social psychology
IS - 5
ER -