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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 1, 104-119 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299025001009
© 1999 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Affect and Self-Focused Attention Revisited: The Role of Affect Orientation

Jeffrey D. Green

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, jeff_green{at}unc.edu

Constantine Sedikides

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research examining the influence of affect on self-focused attention has concentrated exclusively on the valence dimension (i.e., negative-positive) of affect. The authors propose that the dimension of affect orientation (i.e., reflective-social) illuminates consider ably this relation. A reflective orientation refers to atendency for inaction, whereas a social orientation refers to a tendency for action. Two experiments tested the hypothesis that two opposite-valenced but reflective affective states (i.e., sadness and contentment) heighten self-focused attention, whereas two opposite-valenced but social affective states (i.e., thrill and anger) reduce self-focused attention. Affect was induced via an imagination task (Experiment 1) or an imagination task combined with musical selections (Experiment 2). Self-focused attention was assessed through the state version of the Private Self-Consciousness (PSC) scale (Experiment 1) or the state version of the PSC plus a behavioral intention measure (Experiment 2). The results confirmed the hypothesis.


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