ABSTRACT
I n recent years a growing number of studies have emphasized the roleof affect (i.e., emotions and mood) in judgmental outcomes (e.g., Bower,1981; Damasio, 1994; Johnson & Tversky 1983; Niedenthal, Halberstadt, & Setterlund, 1997). For instance, research on mood-congruent judgment has demonstrated that evaluations of other people may be assimilated to the tonality of one’s affective state. Compared with individuals in a neutral nonmanipulated affective state, sad or angry people evaluate other people or objects more negatively. In contrast, being happy makes people evaluate other people as well as objects more positively.
