title: Assessing mood with affect-sensitive tasks.
abstract: It is hypothesized that when an individual experiences a change in mood there are concomitant changes in performance at cognitive and psychomotor tasks. The present study attempts to identify tasks which are mood-sensitive. The nature of affect-sensitive tasks will yield information about how mood influences behavior. Further, to the extent that relationships between mood and affect-sensitive tasks are found, clients may be motivated to change their mood by a knowledge of expectable improvements in performance. Ten tasks and a mood-adjective checklist were administered to 106 subjects. Four of the tasks showed statistically significant relationships with self-reported mood. Results were promising for further investigations of affect-sensitive tasks.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bremer