Intuition, affect, and personality: unconscious coherence judgments and self-regulation of negative affect.
According to personality systems interaction theory, a negative mood was expected to reduce access to extended semantic networks and to reduce performance on intuitive judgments of coherence for participants who have an impaired ability to down-regulate negative affect (i.e., state-oriented participants). Consistent with expectations, state-oriented participants reporting higher levels of perseverating negative mood had a reduced discrimination between coherent and incoherent standard word triples (Study 1) and individually derived word triples describing persons (Study 2). Participants who are able to down-regulate negative affect (i.e., action-oriented participants) did not show this tendency. In addition, Study 2 revealed a dissociation between state orientation and Neuroticism that is discussed in terms of a functional difference between the two constructs.
Baumann
Nicola
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Department of Psychology, University of Osnabrück, Germany. baumann@luce.psycho.uni-osnabrueck.de
Kuhl
Julius
J
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology