Alice M Isen
Biographic Data
| ID | 262840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice M Isen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice M |
| FAMILY NAME | Isen |
| SIGNATURE | ISEN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 511 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Influence of Positive Affect on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Facilitating Enjoyment of Play, Responsible Work Behavior, and Self-Control
The influence of positive affect on the components of expectancy motivation.
The influence of positive affect on expectancy motivation was investigated in 2 studies. The results of Study 1 indicated that positive affect improved people's performance and affected their perceptions of expectancy and valence. In Study 1, in which outcomes depended on chance, positive affect did not influence people's perceptions of instrumentality. In Study 2, in which the link between performance and outcomes was specified, positive affect …
An Influence of Positive Affect on Decision Making in Complex Situations: Theoretical Issues With Practical Implications
This article reviews evidence indicating that, in most circumstances, positive affect enhances problem solving and decision making, leading to cognitive processing that is not only flexible, innovative, and creative, but also thorough and efficient. These results have implications regarding consumers’ potential reactions to affect generated by ads, products, consumption situations, and service encounters. These cognitive effects of positive affec…
A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition.
Positive affect systematically influences performance on many cognitive tasks. A new neuropsychological theory is proposed that accounts for many of these effects by assuming that positive affect is associated with increased brain dopamine levels. The theory predicts or accounts for influences of positive affect on olfaction, the consolidation of long-term (i.e., episodic) memories, working memory, and creative problem solving. For example, the t…
Positive Affect
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Background Positive Affect Facilitates Pro-social Behavior Positive Affect Influences Cognition Positive Affect and Motivation Conclusion References
Group Representations and Intergroup Bias: Positive Affect, Similarity, and Group Size
This study examined how social (group size: two, three, or four persons), appearance (similar or dissimilar dress), and affective (positive or neutral mood) factors can influence social categorization and, consequently, intergroup bias. As expected, positive affect increased the extent to which subjects formed inclusive group representations, anticipating that the members of two groups would feel like one, superordinate group. Also as predicted, …
The Influence of Positive Affect on Variety Seeking Among Safe, Enjoyable Products
In three brand-choice experiments executed on personal computers, a significant interaction was found regarding the influence of positive affect, induced by the gift of a small bag of candy or sugarless gum, on variety-seeking behavior. In three food categories (crackers, soup, and snack foods), a positive-affect manipulation increased variety-seeking behavior relative to that in the control conditions, when circumstances did not make unpleasant …
Affect and Social Behavior
1. Vocabularies of emotion E. Berschild 2. Capturing the 'flavor' of behavior: cognition, affect and interpretation J. Koren and N. Cantor 3. Affect and aggression P. A. Bell and R. A. Baron 4. Affect and altruism C. D. Batson 5. Passionate love in intimate relationships E. Hatfield and R. L. Rapson 6. Attitude, affect, and consumer behavior J. Cohen 7. Depression and sensitivity to social information G. Weary 8. Children's strategies for the con…
Influence of positive affect on the subjective utility of gains and losses: It is just not worth the risk
Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes, and Social Behavior
Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving
The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations
A pilot study and two experiments investigated the influence of positive affect, induced in three differing ways, on the uniqueness of word associations. Persons in the positive-affect conditions gave more unusual first-associates to neutral words, according to the Palermo & Jenkins (1964) norms, than did subjects in the control conditions. In Study 3, where word type (positive, neutral, negative) was a second factor along with affect, in a betwe…
The influence of affect on categorization
Three studies and a pilot experiment showed that positive affect, induced in any of three ways, influenced categorization of either of two types of stimuli—words or colors. As reflected by performance on two types of tasks (rating and sorting), people in whom positive affect had been induced tended to create and use categories more inclusively than did subjects in a control condition. On one task, they tended to group more stimuli together, and o…
The Influence of Positive Affect on Decision-Making Strategy
This study investigated the influence of a positive feeling state on the decision-making process involved in choosing one alternative from among a group of items. Subjects were asked to select one of six fictitious cars, differing along several dimensions, for purchase. Persons who had been made to feel good by receiving feedback that they had succeeded on a prior task of perceptual-motor skills chose the same alternatives as did control subjects…
The effect of positive feelings on risk taking: When the chips are down
Influence of self-reported distress and empathy on egoistic versus altruistic motivation to help
The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative
Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative"?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 58-63
Affect, accessibility of material in memory, and behavior: A cognitive loop
The influence of polyacrylic acid (MW 2000-10 000) on the stability of TiO2 dispersions was studied both in dil. suspensions (by light transmission) and in concd. dispersions (by rheol.). Polyacrylic acid in low concns. destabilizes TiO2 dispersions, but at higher concns., a stabilizing influence is found. In the high-concn. region, esp. stable dispersions can be obtained when electrostatic and steric stabilization act simultaneously. [on SciFind…
Duration of the effect of good mood on helping: Footprints on the sands of time
Further Studies on the Effect of Feeling Good on Helping
Effects of success and failure on children's generosity
Effect of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness
Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success
Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving
Effect of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness
Affect, accessibility of material in memory, and behavior: A cognitive loop
The influence of polyacrylic acid (MW 2000-10 000) on the stability of TiO2 dispersions was studied both in dil. suspensions (by light transmission) and in concd. dispersions (by rheol.). Polyacrylic acid in low concns. destabilizes TiO2 dispersions, but at higher concns., a stabilizing influence is found. In the high-concn. region, esp. stable dispersions can be obtained when electrostatic and steric stabilization act simultaneously. [on SciFind…
The influence of affect on categorization
Three studies and a pilot experiment showed that positive affect, induced in any of three ways, influenced categorization of either of two types of stimuli—words or colors. As reflected by performance on two types of tasks (rating and sorting), people in whom positive affect had been induced tended to create and use categories more inclusively than did subjects in a control condition. On one task, they tended to group more stimuli together, and o…
The Influence of Positive Affect on Variety Seeking Among Safe, Enjoyable Products
In three brand-choice experiments executed on personal computers, a significant interaction was found regarding the influence of positive affect, induced by the gift of a small bag of candy or sugarless gum, on variety-seeking behavior. In three food categories (crackers, soup, and snack foods), a positive-affect manipulation increased variety-seeking behavior relative to that in the control conditions, when circumstances did not make unpleasant …
Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success
The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations
A pilot study and two experiments investigated the influence of positive affect, induced in three differing ways, on the uniqueness of word associations. Persons in the positive-affect conditions gave more unusual first-associates to neutral words, according to the Palermo & Jenkins (1964) norms, than did subjects in the control conditions. In Study 3, where word type (positive, neutral, negative) was a second factor along with affect, in a betwe…
Influence of self-reported distress and empathy on egoistic versus altruistic motivation to help
Influence of positive affect on the subjective utility of gains and losses: It is just not worth the risk
The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative
Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative"?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 58-63
Duration of the effect of good mood on helping: Footprints on the sands of time
Effects of success and failure on children's generosity
Further Studies on the Effect of Feeling Good on Helping
Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success
Effect of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness
Effects of success and failure on children's generosity
Further Studies on the Effect of Feeling Good on Helping
Duration of the effect of good mood on helping: Footprints on the sands of time
Affect, accessibility of material in memory, and behavior: A cognitive loop
The influence of polyacrylic acid (MW 2000-10 000) on the stability of TiO2 dispersions was studied both in dil. suspensions (by light transmission) and in concd. dispersions (by rheol.). Polyacrylic acid in low concns. destabilizes TiO2 dispersions, but at higher concns., a stabilizing influence is found. In the high-concn. region, esp. stable dispersions can be obtained when electrostatic and steric stabilization act simultaneously. [on SciFind…
The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative
Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, The Effect of Feeling State on Evaluation of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Stimuli: When You "Accentuate the Positive," Do You "Eliminate the Negative"?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 58-63
The Influence of Positive Affect on Decision-Making Strategy
This study investigated the influence of a positive feeling state on the decision-making process involved in choosing one alternative from among a group of items. Subjects were asked to select one of six fictitious cars, differing along several dimensions, for purchase. Persons who had been made to feel good by receiving feedback that they had succeeded on a prior task of perceptual-motor skills chose the same alternatives as did control subjects…
The effect of positive feelings on risk taking: When the chips are down
Influence of self-reported distress and empathy on egoistic versus altruistic motivation to help
The influence of affect on categorization
Three studies and a pilot experiment showed that positive affect, induced in any of three ways, influenced categorization of either of two types of stimuli—words or colors. As reflected by performance on two types of tasks (rating and sorting), people in whom positive affect had been induced tended to create and use categories more inclusively than did subjects in a control condition. On one task, they tended to group more stimuli together, and o…
The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations
A pilot study and two experiments investigated the influence of positive affect, induced in three differing ways, on the uniqueness of word associations. Persons in the positive-affect conditions gave more unusual first-associates to neutral words, according to the Palermo & Jenkins (1964) norms, than did subjects in the control conditions. In Study 3, where word type (positive, neutral, negative) was a second factor along with affect, in a betwe…
Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes, and Social Behavior
Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving
Influence of positive affect on the subjective utility of gains and losses: It is just not worth the risk
Affect and Social Behavior
1. Vocabularies of emotion E. Berschild 2. Capturing the 'flavor' of behavior: cognition, affect and interpretation J. Koren and N. Cantor 3. Affect and aggression P. A. Bell and R. A. Baron 4. Affect and altruism C. D. Batson 5. Passionate love in intimate relationships E. Hatfield and R. L. Rapson 6. Attitude, affect, and consumer behavior J. Cohen 7. Depression and sensitivity to social information G. Weary 8. Children's strategies for the con…
The Influence of Positive Affect on Variety Seeking Among Safe, Enjoyable Products
In three brand-choice experiments executed on personal computers, a significant interaction was found regarding the influence of positive affect, induced by the gift of a small bag of candy or sugarless gum, on variety-seeking behavior. In three food categories (crackers, soup, and snack foods), a positive-affect manipulation increased variety-seeking behavior relative to that in the control conditions, when circumstances did not make unpleasant …
Group Representations and Intergroup Bias: Positive Affect, Similarity, and Group Size
This study examined how social (group size: two, three, or four persons), appearance (similar or dissimilar dress), and affective (positive or neutral mood) factors can influence social categorization and, consequently, intergroup bias. As expected, positive affect increased the extent to which subjects formed inclusive group representations, anticipating that the members of two groups would feel like one, superordinate group. Also as predicted, …
A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition.
Positive affect systematically influences performance on many cognitive tasks. A new neuropsychological theory is proposed that accounts for many of these effects by assuming that positive affect is associated with increased brain dopamine levels. The theory predicts or accounts for influences of positive affect on olfaction, the consolidation of long-term (i.e., episodic) memories, working memory, and creative problem solving. For example, the t…
Positive Affect
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Background Positive Affect Facilitates Pro-social Behavior Positive Affect Influences Cognition Positive Affect and Motivation Conclusion References
An Influence of Positive Affect on Decision Making in Complex Situations: Theoretical Issues With Practical Implications
This article reviews evidence indicating that, in most circumstances, positive affect enhances problem solving and decision making, leading to cognitive processing that is not only flexible, innovative, and creative, but also thorough and efficient. These results have implications regarding consumers’ potential reactions to affect generated by ads, products, consumption situations, and service encounters. These cognitive effects of positive affec…
The influence of positive affect on the components of expectancy motivation.
The influence of positive affect on expectancy motivation was investigated in 2 studies. The results of Study 1 indicated that positive affect improved people's performance and affected their perceptions of expectancy and valence. In Study 1, in which outcomes depended on chance, positive affect did not influence people's perceptions of instrumentality. In Study 2, in which the link between performance and outcomes was specified, positive affect …
The Influence of Positive Affect on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Facilitating Enjoyment of Play, Responsible Work Behavior, and Self-Control
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Affect (linguistics) (11 works) · Communication (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Feeling (7 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (6 works)