Psychological Science Philip Gable and Eddie Harmon - Jones in Motivational Intensity The Blues Broaden , but the Nasty Narrows : Attentional Consequences of Negative Affects Low and High
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Positive and negative affects high in motivational intensity cause a narrowing of attentional focus. In contrast, positive affects low in motivational intensity cause a broadening of attentional focus. The attentional consequences of negative affects low in motivational intensity have not been experimentally investigated. Experiment 1 compared the attentional consequences of negative affect low in motivational intensity (sadness) relative to a neutral affective state. Results indicated that low-motivation negative affect caused attentional broadening. Experiment 2 found that disgust, a high-motivation negative affect not previously investigated in attentional studies, narrowed attentional focus. These experiments support the conceptual model linking highmotivation affective states to narrowed attention and low-motivation affective states to broadened attention.
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