关键词: 情绪效价；注意倾向；注意范围

Abstract: Being happy or sad influences the content and style of thought. To explore the relationship between affect and attentional scope, the current research challenges the common view that positive affect and negative affect generate a broadened or narrowed attentional focus, respectively. Contrary to this view, this study found that after priming different kinds of attentional orientation with Navon task the link between affect and attentional focus as measured by a KimchiPalmer matching figures task reflected whatever focus is momentarily dominant. Results showed that global priming led people in happy moods to focus on the ‘forest’ and people in sad moodsto focus on the ‘trees’. However, local priming led to the reverse pattern, in which happy moods focused on the trees, and sad moods focused on the forest. Importantly, there was no a hint of a direct effect of mood on perceptual style.Taken together, the current findings suggest that positive affect(e.g., happiness) tends to promote reliance on currently dominant processing inclinations, whereas negative affect(e.g., sadness) tends to inhibit such reliance.

Key words: affect valence;attentional scope;attentional orientations