Recent FBIp Research Results

Papers (click on article to open abstract)

Creativity

·   Gasper, K. (2003). When necessity is the mother of invention: Mood and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 248-262.

·   Gasper, K. (2004). Permission to seek freely? The effect of happy and sad moods on generating old and new ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 16, 215-229.

Global Local Processing

·   Gasper, K. & Clore, G.L. (2002). Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science, 13, 34-40.

·   Gasper, K. (2004).  Do you see what I see? Affect and visual information processing. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 405-421.

Judgments of Risk

·   Gasper, K. & Clore, G.L. (1998). The persistent use of negative affect by anxious individuals to estimate risk.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1350-1363.

·   Gasper, K. & Clore, G.L. (2000). Do you have to pay attention to your feelings to be influenced by them? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 698-711.

 

Following Affective State Test

 

·  Gasper, K., & Bramesfeld (formerly Sabin), K. D. (in press). Should I Follow My Feelings? How individual differences in following feelings predict affective experience, affective well-being, and affective responsiveness. Journal of Research in Personality.

 

·  FAST Scale and Coding

 

In Honor of M. Arnold

 

·  Gasper, K., & Bramesfeld (formerly Sabin), K. D. (2006). Imparting Arnold's Wisdom: Integrating Research on Affect and Motivation, Cognition and Emotion, 20, 1001-1026.

 

Posters (these will open in Microsoft Powerpoint):

Mood and Group Information Processing

·   Bramesfeld (Sabin), K.D. & Gasper, K. (2002). Who Dunnit'? Mood, Information processing and group problem-solving, Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

·   Bramesfeld (Sabin), K.D. & Gasper, k. (2005). Do you feel what I feel? Affect diversity and group level information processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Mood and Task Preparations

·   Bramesfeld (Sabin), K.D. & Gasper, K. (2004). Practice makes perfect. The effects of momentary mood on learning and task preparation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

·   Bramesfeld, K.D. & Gasper, K. (2006). Wanting to be prepared, but not feeling prepared: The dual role of negative affect in the preparation process.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

The research on mood and task preparations was supported by NSF (award # 0348048) to Karen Gasper

Mood and Social Comparison Seeking

·   Smith LeBeau, L., & Gasper, K. (2005).  When quality influences quantity.  The effects of mood and information quality on upward comparison seeking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.