Event Title
Mood-Induced Global Focus Does Not Diminish Cognitive Biases
Faculty Advisor
Samuel Day
Start Date
25-4-2017 4:00 PM
End Date
25-4-2017 5:00 PM
Description
On a variety of perceptual and cognitive tasks, positive mood has been associated with a broader, more global perspective, and negative mood with a narrower, more local focus. We examine the extent of this phenomenon by assessing mood effects in the domain of “mental accounting”, where a more global focus should help individuals overcome some typical decision-making biases. However, despite a strong mood manipulation, we found absolutely no evidence that mood influenced participants’ susceptibility to these biases.
Mood-Induced Global Focus Does Not Diminish Cognitive Biases
On a variety of perceptual and cognitive tasks, positive mood has been associated with a broader, more global perspective, and negative mood with a narrower, more local focus. We examine the extent of this phenomenon by assessing mood effects in the domain of “mental accounting”, where a more global focus should help individuals overcome some typical decision-making biases. However, despite a strong mood manipulation, we found absolutely no evidence that mood influenced participants’ susceptibility to these biases.