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• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 311
• Professor: Ray Winters

Document Summary

People often make judgments by asking themselves, how do i feel about it? studies in recent years provide evidence that emotions generated by cognitive appraisal or automatic appraisal serve as affective feedback that guides judgment, decision-making, and information processing. Similarly, there is ample evidence that a person"s current mood state may be used as information in a way that is similar to the way emotions are used. Gasper, and garvin (2001), when making judgments or decisions mood is experienced as feedback information. Why we have emotions: evidence for a role of mood in judgment, decision-making, and information processing. Gasper and clore examined the influence of current mood state on risk judgments (what level of risk a person is willing to take). What did their results reveal about the role of mood state, attention to current mood, and risk judgments: mood influenced risk judgments in subjects who usually attend to their feelings but not those who don"t.