Affect-as-information model
The emotion-as-information model ( Affect-as-information model states) that people their emotions or moods take as a reference point and with regard to include them in the overall assessment of a judgment object. The affect-as-information model assumes that those who judge a state of affairs or a person follow a "how am I doing this?" Heuristic . The mood flows into the formation of judgment as information. When this process occurs when evaluating a person, it affects the formation of the impression.
Explanation: Findings show that remembering positive events in one's own biography (e.g. in the performance area) leads to a more favorable mood and higher self-esteem than remembering negative events.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clore, GL & Parrott, WG (1991). Moods and their vicissitudes: Thoughts and feelings as information . In JP Forgas (Ed.), Emotion and social judgments (pp. 107–123). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
- ↑ Schwarz, M. (1990). Feelings as information. Informational and motivational functions of affective states . In ET Higgins and RM Sorrentino (Eds), Handbook of motivation and cognition (Vol. 2, pp. 527-561). New York: Guilford Press.
- ^ Schwarz, N. (2000). Social judgment and attitudes: warmer, more social, and less conscious . In: European Journal of Social Psychology , 30, 149–176.
- ↑ Levine, SR, Wyer, RS & Schwarz, N. (1994). Are you what you feel? The affective and cognitive determinants of self-judgments . In: European Journal of Social Psychology , 24, 63-77.