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Is what you feel what you don't know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Simon C. Moore  and
Mike Oaksford
Simon C. Moore
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3YG, Wales, United Kingdom{mooresc; oaksford}@cardiff.ac.uk www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/psych/mooresc
Mike Oaksford
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3YG, Wales, United Kingdom{mooresc; oaksford}@cardiff.ac.uk www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/psych/mooresc
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Abstract

Rolls defines emotion as innate reward and punishment. This could not explain our results showing that people learn faster in a negative mood. We argue that what people know about their world affects their emotional state. Negative emotion signals a failure to predict negative reward and hence prompts learning to resolve the ignorance. Thus what you don't know affects how you feel.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 211 - 212
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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