The present study investigated the influence of related and unrelated emotions on judgments about a news article. An experimental study was designed to manipulate both the relatedness of an elicited emotion (i. e., anger) to the news article and processing depth. Following mood and emotion effects theory, related anger was expected to have a stronger effect on judgments about the media message than unrelated anger. Processing depth was expected to moderate this effect. The results showed a main effect of relatedness and a main effect of processing depth, but the interaction effect was not found. Implications of the findings for understanding how emotions influence the processing of media stimuli are discussed.

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相关和无关情绪对媒体信息判断的不同影响

本研究调查了相关和无关的情绪对新闻文章判断的影响。设计了一项实验研究，以操纵引起的情绪（即愤怒）与新闻文章的关联性和处理深度。遵循情绪和情绪效应理论，与不相关的愤怒相比，预期相关的愤怒对媒体信息的判断具有更强的影响。加工深度有望减轻这种影响。结果显示了相关性的主要作用和加工深度的主要作用，但是没有发现相互作用作用。讨论了发现的含义，以了解情绪如何影响媒体刺激的处理。