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Mood and Behavior Perception: Dysphoria Can Increase and Decrease Effortful Processing of Information.

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Lassiter, G. Daniel; And Others – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996

Five studies examined the effect of dysphoric mood on perceivers' subjective unitization of an observed other's ongoing behavior into discrete meaningful actions. Dysphoria generally reduced unitization rate (i.e., number of actions discriminated). Additional evidence indicates this reduction results from failure to initiate a higher (more…

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