title: Effects of induced emotional state on lexical processing in younger and older adults.
abstract: The authors investigated the effects of an induced emotional mood state on lexical decision task (LDT) performance in 50 young adults and 25 older adults. Participants were randomly assigned to either happy or sad mood induction conditions. An emotional mood state was induced by having the participants listen to 8 min of classical music previously rated to induce happy or sad moods. Results replicated previous studies with young adults (i.e., sad-induced individuals responded faster to sad words and happy-induced individuals responded faster to happy words) and extended this pattern to older adults. Results are discussed with regard to information processing, aging, and emotion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks 58202, USA. f_ferraro@und.nodak.edu
authors.forename: F Richard
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Ferraro
authors.forename: Brent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ronning
authors.forename: Krista
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pekarski
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Risan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary