Mood management: The role of processing strategies in affect control and affect infusion

Abstract

Presents a detailed theory of mood management that focuses on the various situational, task, and individual difference factors that facilitate or hinder effective emotional self-regulation. The authors argue that the major goal of the mood management system is affective equilibrium and that mild affective states give rise to one of two subtle and often subconscious cognitive strategies designed to maintain or change the current state. These 2 strategies are substantive and motivated information processing, and they result in affect infusion and affect control, respectively. According to the authors, people have the ability to calibrate and correct their mood states by relying on the complementary operation of affect infusion and control. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)