Mood Management in the Context of Selective Exposure Theory

By Dolf Zillmann. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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News Selection Patterns as a Function of Race: The Discerning Minority and the Indiscriminating Majority (2008, background): “…coins the phenomenon that media users do not allocate their media choices and time equally to the available cornucopia of media messages, but rather demonstrate preference and avoidance patterns due to situational circumstances and personality factors (Zillmann, 2000; Zillmann & Bryant, 1985).”
Elevation in Response to Entertainment Portrayals of Moral Virtue (2012, background): “Likewise, mood-management theory conceptualizes entertainment consumption in hedonistic terms, arguing that the termination of negative moods and the maintenance of positive moods guide many entertainment choices (Zillmann, 2000).”
Listening to sad music in adverse situations: How music selection strategies relate to self-regulatory goals, listening effects, and mood enhancement (2015, background): “Zillmann (2000) argued that people sometimes engage in behaviour that may not provide immediate rewards in terms of feeling, but is expected to have positive mood rewards in the long term.”
Appreciation as Audience Response: Exploring Entertainment Gratifications beyond Hedonism. (2010, background): “Some scholars have suggested that such preferences may reflect downward social comparison (Mares & Cantor, 1992), or that they may reflect the seeking of information that may ultimately help the mournful viewer "work through" his or her negative state (Zillmann, 2000).”
Mood Adjustment to Social Situations Through Mass Media Use: How Men Ruminate and Women Dissipate Angry Moods (2006, background): “Yet, the theoretical proposition of mood management theory has also faced some challenges (Zillmann, 2000) that inspired the current research.”
Entertainment as Pleasurable and Meaningful: Identifying Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Entertainment Consumption (2011, background): “…seemingly at odds with anecdotal accounts and more formal studies suggesting that at times, more somber entertainment (e.g., mournful songs) seems to hold particular appeal among individuals who are feeling blue, sad, or melancholy themselves (Gibson, Aust, & Zillmann, 2000; Mares & Cantor, 1992).”
Temporal Changes in Mood Repair Through Music Consumption: Effects of Mood, Mood Salience, and Individual Differences (2007, background): “Also in the context of music selection, Gibson, Aust, and Zillmann (2000) reported strikingly different effects of negative moods.”
The Role of a Narrative's Emotional Flow in Promoting Persuasive Outcomes (2015, unknown): “Disposition theory states that affective dispositions toward characters and the outcomes those characters experience ultimately predict viewer enjoyment (Zillmann, 2000).”
Narrative and interactivity in computer games (2006, background): “In entertainment literature, Zillmann’s work on mood management and selective exposure (Zillmann, 2000) suggests that media use is often determined by its ability to serve the user’s immediate affective needs, even if the needs are”