title: On being happy and mistaken on a good day: revisiting Forgas's (1998) mood-bias result.
abstract: Forgas (1998) reported "on being happy and mistaken," finding that a happy mood increased the fundamental attribution error (FAE) compared to a sad mood. However, the standard attitude-attribution paradigm used by Forgas might contain demand characteristics, to which happy people might be especially susceptible. In addition, Goldenberg and Forgas (2012) showed that a happy mood decreased a form of the FAE. Using the questioner-contestant paradigm, we replicated Forgas's result, but only when participants were already having a "good day."
authors.affiliation: a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Stalder
authors.forename: Jessica A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: correspondence bias; fundamental attribution error; mood