Negative mood causes re-analysis of information conflicting between familiar knowledge and discourse content uarizona FrontiersIn NegativeMood Mood FamiliarKnowledge DiscourseContent
By Tarun Sai LomteJan 18 2023Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In a recent study published in Frontiers in Communication, researchers explored how mood influences the processing of relatively neutral discourse content.
About the study In the present study, researchers assessed how mood influences the balance between relying on the world and discourse knowledge. They enrolled 34 native Dutch-speaking females from a university in the Netherlands. Recruitment was restricted to females only because prior studies suggested more successful mood manipulation in females than males.
In condition d-s+, world knowledge would support the critical word , while the discourse context would not. The team induced positive/negative mood states using film clips. Five clips from a sad movie or a situation comedy were used to induce a negative or positive mood. Participants were scheduled for two sessions, one week apart.
The team observed normal visual processing in participants in each session based on perceptual event-related potential components . Negative waveforms peaking at 400 ms followed the perceptual components. d-s- condition induced more negative N400s than d+s+ in both mood states. The late positive components were evident at 600 ms, which sustained until 1000 ms.
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