Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope

Research over the last 5 decades has suggested that negative affective states narrow cognitive scope, whereas positive affective states broaden cognitive scope. An examination of this past research, however, reveals that only negative affects of high motivational intensity (e.g., fear, stress) and p...

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Published in:Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society 2013-08, Vol.22 (4), p.301-307
Main Authors: Harmon-Jones, Eddie, Gable, Philip A., Price, Tom F.
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Affectivity. Emotion
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Motivation
Personality. Affectivity
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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