Preference for current mood, anticipated emotional reaction, and experienced emotional reaction
Journal article, 2004

Two experiments investigated how preference for emotions is related to valence and activation of current mood, anticipated emotional reaction, and experienced emotional reaction. In Experiment 1, 40 undergraduates on one occasion rated valence and activation of and preference for their emotional reaction to an aircraft noise, then on a later occasion rated valence and activation of and preference for their recalled or anticipated emotional reaction to the same aircraft noise. On both occasions they also rated valence and activation of current mood. In Experiment 2, another 40 undergraduates rated valence and activation of current mood followed by ratings of preference for and valence and activation of anticipated emotional reaction to descriptions of familiar emotion-eliciting situations. The results showed that preference is related to valence and activation of current mood, anticipated emotional reaction, or experienced emotional reaction. The valence of current mood was also found to influence preference for anticipated and experienced emotions.

decision-making

regret

judgments

arousal

core affect

circumplex

utility

model

choice

states

Author

Daniel Västfjäll

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Department of Applied Acoustics

Tommy Gärling

University of Gothenburg

Mendel Kleiner

Chalmers, Department of Applied Acoustics, Room Acoustics

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

0036-5564 (ISSN) 1467-9450 (eISSN)

Vol. 45 1 27-36

Subject Categories

Psychology

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9450.2004.00375.x

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10/8/2017