Abstract

VICTORIA, Mara Sizino da; SOARES, Adriana Benevides  and  MORATORI, Patrick Barbosa. The influence of positives and negatives emotionals statte in cognitive processing. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.2, pp.29-41. ISSN 1808-4281.

The goal of the present work is to study the field of psychology of emotion and of cognitive psychology, within the data processing framework. To accomplish this research, a total of 42 individuals took part of it, and two experiments were done and compared: the former activated emotional nodes; the latter activated cognitive nodes. Both were set with priming and had tasks of word recognition, measured by time of reaction, using a computer. Within each experiment there was a division of word category, where was done an intra-group analysis through the variance analysis. In this analysis, no significant difference was shown by the results. In addition, an inter-group analysis was done using T-test. In this case, the difference between experiments was significant. These results show that the existence of hypothetic model of the emotional nodes, still little explored, does not have to be rejected.

Keywords : Psychology of emotion; Data processing; Priming.

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