Attending to the Big Picture: Mood and Global Versus Local Processing of Visual Information

By Karen Gasper, Gerald L. Clore. Psychology Science, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2006, neutral): “Gasper & Clore , 2002 ) .”
A Brain Mechanism for Facilitation of Insight by Positive Affect (2009, neutral): “Briefly, one hypothesis is that PA promotes a more global scope of attention (Bolte, Goschke, & Kuhl, 2003; Gasper & Clore, 2002), enhancing access to distant or unusual associations (Friedman, Fishbein, Fo¨rster, & Werth, 2003; Federmeier, Kirson, Moreno, & Kutas, 2001; Isen et al., 1985), which…”
Tailoring positive psychology interventions to treat depressed individuals. (2011, neutral): “In contrast to the narrowing of attention (Gasper & Clore, 2002) and behavioral inhibition (Kasch et al., 2002) characteristic of negative states, positive emotions trigger upward spirals toward greater psychological well-being (Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002).”
The Happy-Productive Worker Thesis Revisited (2008, background): “For example, negative moods seem to bias people’s attention towards details rather than global meaning (Gasper and Clore 2002), improving task performance when a detailed level of analysis is required.”
What good are positive emotions in crises? A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. (2003, background): “Più di recente Fredrickson e Branigan [33] hanno dimostrato che, rispetto agli stati affettivi neutri e alle emozioni negative, le emozioni positive allargano la portata dell’attenzione visiva e amplificano i repertori transitori di azione-pensiero, e che questi effetti di amplificazione si riscontr”
The Influence of Affect on Attitude (2005, background): “Stereotype use was seen as part of a general tendency to adopt a category-level focus (Fiske & Pavelchek, 1986; Gasper & Clore, 2002) when positive affect empowers current thoughts.”
Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias (2012, background): “…between global and local processing has been important to understanding psychological processes in many domains (e.g., Derryberry & Reed, 1998; Förster & Higgins, 2005; Förster, Liberman, & Kuschel, 2008; Gasper & Clore, 2002; Mogg, Mathews, Bird, & Macgregor-Morris, 1990, see Förster, 2012).”
Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. (2006, background): “…and cognitive processes of people experiencing positive emotions are characterized by a global rather than a local focus (Fredrickson & Branigan, 2004; Gasper & Clore, 2002; Kimchi & Palmer, 1982), suggesting that positive emotions help to broaden the scope of attention (Fredrickson, 2003).”
How Mood States Affect Information Processing During Facial Emotion Recognition: An Eye Tracking Study (2011, background): “Because we hypothesized that participants in a happy mood use the more beneficial, global processing style (e.g., Gasper & Clore, 2002), we predicted that participants in a happy mood would be more accurate than those in a sad mood (Hypothesis 3).”
Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope (2013, background): “For instance, Gasper and Clore (2002) found that sadness narrowed cognitive scope. In their studies, sadness was induced by having participants write about a personal life event that made them feel “sad and negative.” The manipulation check of self-reported affects suggested that participants experi”
Chapter Six - How Working Memory Capacity Affects Problem Solving (2012, background): “…that has long been thought to influence creative problem solving is mood, based in early work showing that positive affect can lead to improved performance on both RAT tasks and classic insight problems by broadening the scope of attention (Gasper & Clore, 2002; Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987).”
You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: power priming and abstract information processing. (2006, background): “Gasper and Clore (2002) found that participants placed in a happy mood not only reproduced a drawing more globally or abstractly than did participants placed in a sad mood, but their reproductions were also judged to be more similar to the original drawing.”