APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Positive Mood Predicts Slower Devaluation of Reward in a Progressive Ratio (PR) Task

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Personality/Emotion

  • Taylor Goldberg
    Temple University
  • Amy Look
    Temple University
  • Christina Cerra
    Temple University
  • Thomas Olino
    Temple University

Abstract

We assessed 148 students on a reward sensitivity task after undergoing positive and negative mood inductions. We found that the positive mood induction led to a significantly slower rate of depreciation of the reward relative to a neutral state, but mood did not influence behavioral performance.

Motivation

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