Approach-Motivated Positive Affect Reduces Breadth of Attention

By P. Gable, Eddie Harmon-Jones. Psychology Science, 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, neutral): “…© 2016 American Psychological Association 2016, Vol. 20, No. 4, 412–425 1089-2680/16/$12.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000089 412 Fredrickson, 1998, 2001, 2012; Rowe, Hirsh, & Anderson, 2007; for some counterevidence against the broaden-hypothesis, see P. A. Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008).”
Conclusions about Interventions, Programs, and Approaches for Improving Executive Functions that appear Justified and those that, despite much hype, do not (2015, neutral): “When we are sad we have orse attentional control (Desseilles et al., 2009; von Hecker and eiser, 2005); when we are happy we have better attentional conrol (Gable and Harmon-Jones, 2008).”
The Cognitive Consequences of Formal Clothing (2015, methodology): “Given that we did not have specific predictions regarding the measure(s) that would be influenced by clothing formality, we collapsed across both measures (per previous work using such tasks, Fo¨rster et al., 2006; Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008, 2010a, 2010b).”
Feeling Love and Doing More for Distant Others: Specific Positive Emotions Differentially Affect Prosocial Consumption (2015, neutral): “…to help manage and respond to aversive situations, positive emotions function to broaden attentional, cognitive, and motivational scope to allow for new perspectives and experiences (e.g., Fredrickson 1998, 2001; Fredrickson and Branigan 2005; for a divergent view, see Gable and Harmon-Jones 2008).”
Just Feelings? The Role of Affect in the Formation of Organizational Fairness Judgments (2011, background): “This system is sensitive to environmental rewards, activating and prolonging approach-oriented or promotion-focused motivations (cf. Carver, 2004; Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008; Higgins, 1998).”
Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope (2013, background): “In addition, increasing the approach motivational intensity of the stimuli (by telling participants that they would get to eat desserts displayed in the pictures) further narrowed attention after appetitive stimuli (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008, Studies 1–4).”
Positive Emotions Broaden and Build (2012, background): “Work by Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008), for instance, examined participants’ reaction times to respond to global–local visual targets after viewing either neutral images or images of delicious desserts.”
GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing (2010, background): “In line with this notion, Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008) manipulated distance while holding valence of end states constant.”
The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation (2010, methodology): “Study 4 of Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008a) tested this by varying the expectancy to consume desserts viewed in pictures.”
Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach (2009, background): “For example, to induce desire, Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008) had people watch a film about delicious desserts.”
Emotion-Induced Engagement in Internet Video Advertisements (2012, methodology): “However, Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008) find that (approach-motivated) positive emotions actually focused attention on the source that led to the emotion (i.e., when the positive emotion is endogenous).”
The Influence of Affective States on Cognitive Broadening⁄Narrowing: Considering the Importance of Motivational Intensity (2012, methodology): “…motivation by leading individuals to believe they would get to eat desserts following the picture viewing caused even more narrowing of attention (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008, Experiment 4).2 In addition, alcohol-related pictures cause a narrowing of attention among individuals who possess a…”