Mood congruity and affective priming have been used to study the effects of affective phenomena on perception. Manipulation of mood is appropriate for investigations of long-term effects while affective priming is limited to short intervals (approximately 300 ms) between a prime and target. However, studying the influence of real-world rapidly changing emotional episodes on perception may fall between the cracks of these methods. This may be caused, inter alia, because emotional episodes are distinguished from mood experiences on one hand, but often last for longer than roughly 300 ms on the other. Thus, it is unclear what experimental approach should be taken to investigate congruency effects triggered by emotional episodes. The present study used a new variation of the evaluation decision task (EDT) combined with a script-driven imagery procedure to investigate a possible congruency relationship between the evaluator's emotional experience at a given time and observable emotional markers of others. We used 180 9-word script-driven imageries as varying valence primes (negative, positive, neutral) and asked participants to imagine themselves in the situation described in the scripts. At the last stage of a trial, all participants were asked to evaluate the mood—positive or negative—of a target face of a child in a photograph. We manipulated the reading interval (4000 ms and 1350 ms) and the subsequent blank interval (300 ms, 5000 ms, and unlimited) until target onset. Prime and target valence were congruent or incongruent. Significant congruency effects were found for both short and long reading intervals and blank intervals. However, in longer blank intervals only the interference effect reached significance. Furthermore, the interference effect was found to be significant mainly in trials beginning with a negative script.

情绪一致性和情感启动已被用于研究情感现象对感知的影响。情绪的操纵适用于长期影响的调查，而情感启动仅限于启动和目标之间的短间隔（大约 300 毫秒）。然而，研究现实世界快速变化的情绪发作对感知的影响可能会落入这些方法的裂缝之中。这可能尤其是因为一方面情绪发作与情绪体验不同，但另一方面通常持续时间超过大约 300 毫秒。因此，目前尚不清楚应该采用何种实验方法来研究由情绪发作引发的一致性效应。本研究使用评估决策任务 (EDT) 的新变体，结合脚本驱动的图像程序来研究评估者在给定时间的情绪体验与他人可观察到的情绪标记之间可能的一致性关系。我们使用了 180 个 9 字脚本驱动的图像作为不同的价素（负、正、中性），并要求参与者想象自己处于脚本中描述的情况。在试验的最后阶段，所有参与者都被要求评估照片中儿童目标脸的情绪——积极或消极。我们操纵读数间隔（4000 ms 和 1350 ms）和随后的空白间隔（300 ms、5000 ms 和无限制），直到目标开始。素数和目标价是一致的或不一致的。对于短和长阅读间隔和空白间隔都发现了显着的一致性效应。然而，在较长的空白间隔中，只有干扰效应达到显着。此外，发现干扰效应主要在以否定脚本开始的试验中显着。