Cognitive tendencies of focusing on positive and negative information |
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Authors: | Kenji Noguchi Carol L Gohm David J Dalsky |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Psychology, University of Mississippi, USA |
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Abstract: | We hypothesized individual differences in the tendency to attend to, think about, and focus on positive (or negative) information. A scale measuring these individual differences was constructed and its validity and reliability were examined in three studies. Attention to positive information was related to positive affectivity, extraversion, BAS, optimism. Attention to negative information was related to negative affectivity, neuroticism, BIS, and optimism (inversely). Validity was partially confirmed by a person perception task: individuals high in attention to positive information perceived the character in a story as happy. Attention to positive information was a partial mediator of the relation between extraversion and positive affect and attention to negative information was a partial mediator of the relation between neuroticism and negative affect. |
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Keywords: | Attention Individual differences Positive valence Negative valence |
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