FBIp Lab
  • About
    • Overview
    • Topics Under Investigation >
      • Neutral Affect >
        • Measure of Neutral Affect
      • Paying Attention to Affective Information >
        • FAST Measure
      • Affect and Information Processing >
        • Global / Local Task - Try it!
      • Affect and Creativity >
        • Mental Sets Task (Luchins, 1942)
    • See for Yourself! Interactive Lab Demos >
      • Try It! Neutral Affect Measure
      • Try It! Global / Local Task
      • Try It! Mental Sets Task
    • Contact the Lab
  • People
    • Dr. Karen Gasper
    • Current Grad Students
    • Former Grad Students
  • Publications
    • Affect and Individual Differences
    • Affective and Motivation / Creativity
    • Affect and Interpersonal Interactions
    • Affect and Thought
    • General Articles on Affect
  • Teaching
  • Undergraduate Student Information
    • Undergraduate Research Opportunities >
      • Lab Application Form
    • Letters of Recommendation

Affect and Motivation

Affective Influences on Motivation and Creativity

Middlewood, B. L., Gallegos, J.M., & Gasper, K. (in press). Embracing the unusual: Feeling tired and happy is associated with greater acceptance of atypical ideas. Creativity Research Journal

Gasper, K. & Middlewood, B. L. (2014). Approaching Novel Thoughts: Understanding why Elation and Boredom Promote Associative Thought More than Distress and Relaxation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 50-57. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.12.007

Gasper, K. & Zawadzki, M. J.* (2012). Want Information? How Mood and Performance Perceptions Alter the Perceived Value of Information and Influence Information-Seeking Behaviors. Motivation & Emotion, 34, 308-322. doi: 10.1007/s11031-012-9303-7

Gasper, K., & Isbell, L. M. (2007). Feeling, Searching, and Preparing:  How Affective States Alter Information Seeking. In Vohs, K. D., Baumeister, R. F., & Loewenstein, G., (Eds.).  Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian perspective (pp. 93-116). New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.

Gasper, K. (2004). Permission to seek freely? The effect of happy and sad moods on generating old and new ideas. The Creativity Research Journal, 16, 215 – 229.

Gasper, K. (2003). When necessity is the mother of invention: Mood and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 248-262.



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  • About
    • Overview
    • Topics Under Investigation >
      • Neutral Affect >
        • Measure of Neutral Affect
      • Paying Attention to Affective Information >
        • FAST Measure
      • Affect and Information Processing >
        • Global / Local Task - Try it!
      • Affect and Creativity >
        • Mental Sets Task (Luchins, 1942)
    • See for Yourself! Interactive Lab Demos >
      • Try It! Neutral Affect Measure
      • Try It! Global / Local Task
      • Try It! Mental Sets Task
    • Contact the Lab
  • People
    • Dr. Karen Gasper
    • Current Grad Students
    • Former Grad Students
  • Publications
    • Affect and Individual Differences
    • Affective and Motivation / Creativity
    • Affect and Interpersonal Interactions
    • Affect and Thought
    • General Articles on Affect
  • Teaching
  • Undergraduate Student Information
    • Undergraduate Research Opportunities >
      • Lab Application Form
    • Letters of Recommendation