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Adding sections & Elaboration[edit]

I would like to add an experiment by Chepenik, L. G., Cornew, L. A., & Farah, M. J. (2007)that examines how negative affect causes an improvement in our perceptive capacities.--Pazapatabalarezo (talk) 17:54, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Two classmates and I want to add in a section on the effects of negative affect on cognition, but specifically on perception, judgment and memory. Would that be okay?

Thanks Akanksha Das (talk) 23:21, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We plan to elaborate on the positive benefits of negative affect specifically for the three categories perception, judgment, and memory since negative affect is often somewhat neglected in cognitive discourse.

Specifically, we are drawing from Forgas, J. P. (2013). Don’t worry, be sad! On the cognitive, motivational, and interpersonal benefits of negative mood. Current Directions In Psychological Science, 22(3), 225-232.

Judgement

I would like to add an experiment by Forgas (2011) that examines how negative affect causes a reduction in the "halo" effect when forming first impressions. Forgas, J. P. (2011). She just doesn't look like a philosopher…? Affective influences on the halo effect in impression formation. European Journal Of Social Psychology, 41(7), 812-817.

Bromartin (talk) 04:57, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Memory

I will be pulling from the following articles in relation to the effect of negative affect on memory

Forgas, J. P. (2013b). The upside of feeling down: The benefits of negative mood for social cognition and social behavior. In J. P. Forgas, K. Fiedler, C. Sedikides (Eds.), Social thinking and interpersonal behavior (pp. 221-238). New York, NY US: Psychology Press.
Forgas, J. P., Vargas, P., & Laham, S. (2005). Mood effects on eyewitness memory: Affective influences on susceptibility to misinformation. Journal of Eperimental Social Psychology, 41, 574-588.
Houston, K. A., Clifford, B. R., Phillips, L. H., & Memon, A. (2013). The emotional eyewitness: The effects of emotion on specific aspects of eyewitness recall and recognition performance. Emotion, 13(1), 118-128. doi:10.1037/a0029220
Kensinger, E. A. (2007). Negative emotion enhances memory accuracy: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Current Directions in Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell), 16(4), 213-218. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00506.x
Storbeck, J., & Clore, G. L. (2011). Affect influences false memories at encoding: Evidence from recognition data. Emotion, 11(4), 981-989. doi:10.1037/a0022754

--Akanksha Das (talk) 02:12, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Title Picture[edit]

Does it have any specific connection to the article at all, or is it just considered stock photography? I'd suggest to remove it in the latter case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.203.61.74 (talk) 18:17, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

He'd feel better if he wore a big hat — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:12C1:44F5:E117:5DC4:21D:287A (talk) 19:50, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A negative affect I feel about this article.[edit]

The standard trope of necessary association with poor self concept. Blithering. Why there is a just denigration of psychology as pseudoscience. 98.4.124.117 (talk) 14:11, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's also not in the given reference, neither the abstract nor the full text, so the negative affect is rightly directed to the conflating muggle editor rather than the community of researchers referred to. 98.4.124.117 (talk) 17:24, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bias in favour of benefits[edit]

The majority of the article covers only the benefits of negative affect, and does not detail any of the drawbacks, which even the "Benefits" section recognises as being the widespread view of the topic. In addition, the benefits listed rely primarily on the work of one researcher (Joseph Forgas), who is cited in most of the citation list entries.

To make the article more useful, the focus should be on detailing the well-known drawbacks first. The benefits are interesting to know, but it is unlikely to be the main interest of the readers of the article. Therefore the length of the benefits section could also be reduced.

I am not an expert on this topic itself, so I am unable to improve the article myself, only to note the issue. GreatEmerald (talk) 22:38, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]