MOOD INFLUENCE ON ANALYTICAL AND INTUITIV E JUDGMENTS DURING FALSE-FAME TASKS

In two experiments the process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991) w as used to examine the effects of mood on automatic and consciously co ntrolled processes in a fame judgment task. Thirty nonfamous names wer e presented once in a study phase to the subjects. After a mood manipu lation subjects performed a fame judgment task. The old nonfamous name s were presented together with new nonfamous and famous names. Subject s got either the hint that names repeated from the study phase were al l famous (inclusion test) or that they were all nonfamous (exclusion t est). Results, especially the comparison of the inclusion and the excl usion test, indicated that subjects under negative mood based their ju dgments more on consciously controlled processes, i.e. recollection of names from the study phase. There was only a weak impact of good mood on controlled processes. In respect to automatic consequences of the study phase (familiarity of names) there was no difference between the three mood conditions.