Some ways in which positive affect influences decision making and problem solving.

By Alice M. Isen. 2008

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Zoo Visitors' Affective Responses to Observing Animal Behaviors (2016, result): “This finding is not only consistent with applied studies in free-choice learning settings (e.g., Falk & Dierking, 2000), but also consistent with experimental studies (e.g., Isen, 2008).”
Sensemaking and emotion in organizations (2013, background): “People experiencing positive emotion tend to categorize cues in a broader, more inclusive and more flexible way (Isen, 2008; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005; Murray, Sujan, Hirt, & Sujan, 1990).”
How does happiness relate to economic behaviour? A review of the literature (2017, background): “Much of the recent work is within conomics and business-related disciplines, but psychologists have een studying the effect of emotions on behaviour for decades see e.g. Isen, 2008 ).”
Embodied learning in the classroom: Effects on primary school children’s attention and foreign language vocabulary learning (2019, background): “…changes in positive affect have been found to mediate the relationship between cognitive engaging activities and children’s attentional performance (Schmidt et al., 2016), being interpreted as additional support of mood being a facilitator for cognitive processing (Forgas & Eich, 2012; Isen, 2008).”
Emotional and motivational uses of music in sports and exercise: A questionnaire study among athletes (2013, background): “To conclude, the present results indirectly suggest that psychological mechanisms such as those proposed by Juslin and Västfjäll (2008) may be underlying musical emotion episodes in sports.”
Measuring Teachers’ enjoyment, anger, and anxiety: The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES) (2016, background): “…insights into the effects of human emotions on behavior (such as, from positive psychology and mood research, see e.g. Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005; Isen, 2008; Mitchell & Phillips, 2007), and on corresponding frequently mentioned claims that teacher emotions are linked with teaching quality…”
Does Emotion Directly Tune the Scope of Attention? (2013, background): “The idea that positive and negative affective feelings broaden or narrow the scope of attention is now an important element of many affect-cognition theories (Derryberry & Tucker, 1994; Fredrickson, 2004; Friedman & Förster, 2010; Isen, 2008; Schwarz & Clore, 2007).”
Dynamics of affective states during complex learning (2012, unknown): “All rights reserved. referential processing (Clore & Huntsinger, 2007; Fielder, 2001; Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005; Isen, 2008; Schwarz, in press).”