The effect of emotion on cue utilization and the organization of behavior

Abstract

Emotion reduces utilization of cues. In some tasks this can be an advantage (elimination of irrelevant cues); more often, however, such reduction inhibits performance. Attentive behavior fits into the framework of this theory. It can also be easily translated into terms of information theory allowing a qualitative evaluation of task difficulty. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1959 American Psychological Association.