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This is a book about moods. Though I will define the term somewhat more carefully in Chapter 1, it might help to note here that I use the word "mood" to refer to affective states which do not stimulate the relatively specific response tendencies we associate with "emotions". Instead, moods are pervasive and global, having the capability of influencing a broad range of thought processes and behavior. My interest in mood was provoked initially by the empirical and conceptual contri butions of Alice Isen and her colleagues. What fascinated me most was the sugges tion first made in a paper by Clark & Isen (1982) that mood seemed to affect behavior in two very different ways, i. e. , mood could "automatically" influence the availabil ity of mood-related cognitions and, thereby, behavior, or mood, especially of the "bad" variety, might capture our attention in that if it were sufficiently aversive we might consciously try to get rid of it, a "controlled" or "strategic" response.
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Book Title: Mood
Book Subtitle: The Frame of Mind
Authors: William N. Morris
Series Title: Springer Series in Social Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3648-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8190-0Published: 04 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3648-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 261
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