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It is
unclear how mood affects how individuals judge the
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emotionality
of information. Knowledge of this
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relationship
may help us understand depression, since
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different
theories of depression predict different types of
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emotional
information processing. A word
rating task can
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be
used to look at these different predictions.
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The
present study examines which of several theories best
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predicts
differences in judgment of the positive and
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negative
emotionality of words by dysphoric and
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nondysphoric
individuals.
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