Abstract
We investigated whether the desire to have a smooth and pleasant interaction with an anticipated interaction partner caused participants' moods to become similar to their imminent partners' moods. We found evidence of anticipatory mood matching when participants were motivated to affiliate with a partner through goal priming (Experiments 1 and 2) and outcome dependency (Experiment 3). Prior research has demonstrated mood contagion arising from actual social interaction but these experiments establish contagion without contact, an outcome evident regardless of whether mood was assessed via self-report (Experiments 1 through 3) or information-processing style (Experiment 3).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 909-922 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
Keywords
- Affiliative motivation
- Emotional states
- Interpersonal convergence
- Mood
- Mood contagion