TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Shifting moods, wandering minds: negative moods lead the mind to wander
JO  - Emotion
A1  - Smallwood, Jonathan
A1  - Fitzgerald, Annamay
A1  - Miles, Lynden K.
A1  - Phillips, Louise H.
SP  - 271
EP  - 276
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
N2  - This study examined the effect of mood states on mind wandering. Positive, neutral, and negative moods were induced in participants prior to them completing a sustained attention task. Mind wandering was measured by using the frequencies of both behavioral lapses and retrospective indices of subjective experience. Relative to a positive mood, induction of a negative mood led participants to make more lapses, report a greater frequency of task irrelevant thoughts, and become less inclined to reengage attentional resources following a lapse. Positive mood, by contrast, was associated with a better ability to adjust performance after a lapse. These results provide further support for the notion that a negative mood reduces the amount of attentional commitment to the task in hand and may do so by enhancing the focus on task irrelevant personal concerns.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1528-3542
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014855
ID  - ref1
ER  -