id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6436 Affect (psychology) - Wikipedia .html text/html 6691 840 52 In this view, such affective reactions as liking, disliking, evaluation, or the experience of pleasure or displeasure each result from a different prior cognitive process that makes a variety of content discriminations and identifies features, examines them to find value, and weighs them according to their contributions (Brewin, 1989). Affects high in motivational intensity, thus, narrow cognitive scope making people able to focus more on target information.[2][28] After seeing a sad picture, participants were faster to identify the larger letter in a Navon attention task, suggesting more global or broadened cognitive scope.[2][29] The sad emotion is thought to sometimes have low motivational intensity. However, an emotion tends to have a clear focus (i.e., its cause is self-evident), while mood tends to be more unfocused and diffuse.[38] Mood, according to Batson, Shaw and Oleson (1992), involves tone and intensity and a structured set of beliefs about general expectations of a future experience of pleasure or pain, or of positive or negative affect in the future. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6436.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6436.txt