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Publication details [#64884]

Forgas, Joseph P. and Diana Matovic. 2018. The Answer Is in the Question? Mood Effects on Processing Verbal Information and Impression Formation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37 (5) : 578–590.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

answer | information processing | mood | question | verbal action

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Is good or bad mood able to affect people's verbal information processing about others? Using affect-cognition theories, this essay portended and found that the manner a question is worded has a greater impact on impressions than real replies when judges meet with a negative rather than a neutral or positive mood.