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Feeling good and feeling close: Affective influences on the perception of intimate relationships
- Source :
- Personal Relationships. 1:165-184
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1994.
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Abstract
- Two experiments investigated the role of short-term affective states on the way people perceive various aspects of their personal relationships. Using an unobtrusive mood induction in a field setting, Experiment 1 found significant mood congruency in evaluative judgments about well-established intimate relationships. Experiment 2 used a controlled laboratory procedure and found that evaluations of the relationship and the partner, as well as preferred styles of conflict resolution were all significantly affected by the respondents' transient mood state. Increasing relationship longevity did not reduce affective influences on judgments in either study. The results arc discussed in terms of the role of affective states in cognition and judgments, and the influence of affect on everyday judgments about personal relationships is considered.
- Subjects :
- Social Psychology
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Cognition
Affect (psychology)
behavioral disciplines and activities
humanities
Developmental psychology
Mood
Feeling
Anthropology
Perception
Mood induction
Conflict resolution
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Mood state
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Psychology
Social psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14756811 and 13504126
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personal Relationships
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f857e36f40e35d2c0ac15e1818ca1e1a