Emotions are automatically expressed, automatically detected, and provide a glimpse into an individual's personality and motivations. Based on this, we hypothesized that providing individuals with information about a target's emotional state would increase the extent to which those individuals felt they had learned something about the target's personality. We tested this hypothesis in 2 studies. Study 1 showed that adding emotional information to an account of a target's action increased perceived learning about that target's personality. Study 2 showed that this effect was due to the emotional nature of the added information and not merely to increased sentence length. These results suggest that emotions serve to convey information about inner states to others, and that individuals use this information when forming dispositional judgments. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester, 2011. / June 27, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Roy F. Baumeister, Professor Directing Thesis; Jon Maner, Committee Member; Walter Boot, Committee Member; Michael Bishop, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_182820 |
| Contributors | Crescioni, A. Will (authoraut), Baumeister, Roy F. (professor directing thesis), Maner, Jon (committee member), Boot, Walter (committee member), Bishop, Michael (committee member), Department of Psychology (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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