Feeling good, searching the bad: Positive priming increases attention and memory for negative stimuli on webpages

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Highlights:

• We investigated impacts of mood and stimulus valence on webpage observation.

• We found an attentional preference for negative stimuli moderated by mood valence.

• A comparable pattern was found regarding memory for webpage content.

• The valence of mood, not of preferred stimuli, affected website evaluation.

摘要

•We investigated impacts of mood and stimulus valence on webpage observation.•We found an attentional preference for negative stimuli moderated by mood valence.•A comparable pattern was found regarding memory for webpage content.•The valence of mood, not of preferred stimuli, affected website evaluation.

论文关键词:Emotions,Mood,Overt attention,Eye-tracking,Memory,Summative website evaluation

论文评审过程:Received 19 May 2015, Revised 11 July 2015, Accepted 13 July 2015, Available online 20 July 2015, Version of Record 20 July 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.020