On being happy but fearing failure: The eVects of mood on self-handicapping strategies
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Does temporary mood inXuence people’s tendency to engage in self-handicapping behaviors? Based on past research on self-handicapping and recent work on aVect and social behaviors, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood signiWcantly increased the tendency to engage in two kinds of self-handicapping strategies. Participants (ND 94) Wrst received contingent or non-contingent positive feedback about performance on a task of ‘cognitive abilities’, and then underwent a positive, neutral, or negative mood induction using video Wlms. Self-handicapping was assessed in terms of their subsequent preference for (a) drinking a performance-enhancing, or performance-inhibiting herbal tea, and (b) engaging or not engaging in performance-enhancing cognitive practice. As predicted, happy mood and non-contingent feedback signiWcantly increased self-handicapping on both measures. The implications of these results for everyday performance tasks, and for recent aVect-cognition theories, are discussed. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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