Research article summary (published 30 Oct 2002):

Intuition, affect, and personality: unconscious coherence judgments and self-regulation of negative affect.

Full Abstract

According to personality systems interaction theory, a negative mood was expected to reduce access to extended semantic networks and to reduce performance on intuitive judgments of coherence for participants who have an impaired ability to down-regulate negative affect (i.e., state-oriented participants). Consistent with expectations, state-oriented participants reporting higher levels of perseverating negative mood had a reduced discrimination between coherent and incoherent standard word triples (Study 1) and individually derived word triples describing persons (Study 2). Participants who are able to down-regulate negative affect (i.e., action-oriented participants) did not show this tendency. In addition, Study 2 revealed a dissociation between state orientation and Neuroticism that is discussed in terms of a functional difference between the two constructs.

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Author information

Author/s: Baumann, Nicola (N); Kuhl, Julius (J);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Osnabrück, Germany. baumann(-atsign-)luce.psycho.uni-osnabrueck.de

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 83 (issue 5) : pp 1213-23

Dates: Created 2002/11/05; Completed 2003/02/21; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12416923, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Adult Affect Female Humans Intuition Judgment

Judgment Male Personality Questionnaires Social Control, Informal Unconscious (Psychology)

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