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Dreisbach, Gesine; Goschke, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
A fundamental problem that organisms face in a changing environment is how to regulate dynamically the balance between stable maintenance and flexible switching of goals and cognitive sets. The authors show that positive affect plays an important role in the regulation of this stability-flexibility balance. In a cognitive set-switching paradigm,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Psychological Studies, Brain