RT Journal Article
T1 Gaze-fixation to happy faces predicts mood repair after a negative mood induction
A1 Gómez, Diego
A1 Joormann, Jutta
A1 Vázquez Valverde, Carmelo José
A1 Sánchez López, Álvaro
AB The present study tested the interplay between mood and attentional deployment by examining attention to positive (i.e., happy faces) and negative (i.e., angry and sad faces) stimuli in response to experimental inductions of sad and happy mood. Participants underwent a negative, neutral or positive mood induction procedure (MIP) which was followed by an assessment of their attentional deployment to emotional faces using eye-tracking technology. In the positive MIP condition, analyses revealed a mood-congruent relation between positive mood and greater attentional deployment to happy faces. In the negative MIP condition, however, analyses revealed a mood-incongruent relation between increased negative mood and greater attentional deployment to happy faces. Furthermore, attentional deployment to happy faces after the negative MIP predicted participants’ mood recovery at the end of the experimental session. These results suggest that attentional processing of positive information may play a role in mood repair, which may have important clinical implications.
PB American Psychological Association
SN 1931-1516
SN 1528-3542
YR 2014
FD 2014-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99579
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99579
LA eng
NO Sanchez, A., Vazquez, C., Gomez, D., & Joormann, J. (2014). Gaze-fixation to happy faces predicts mood repair after a negative mood induction. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 14(1), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034500
NO Spanish Ministry of Education
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025