APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

The Effects of Gratitude and Mood on Performance in a Flanker Task

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cognitive

Session: Poster Session XVIII

Authors

Abstract

Participants wrote either a letter of gratitude or one focusing on negative events, and then performed a flanker task following the display of a happy or angry face. Results indicated no effect of letter writing condition; however, on incongruent trials, participants were faster following happy faces than angry faces.

Positive Psychology