Previous embodiment findings indicate a relationship between physical posture and mood states, suggesting upright postures induce positive mood states. Findings also showed a relationship between moods and cognitive performance. While positive mood states were found to be related to increased processing speed, negative mood states were associated with higher processing accuracy in cognitive task performance. This implies that posture may affect the aforementioned sub-aspects of cognitive performance via mood states. Additionally, most studies on posture effects rely on explicit posture manipulation. With that in mind, our research explores the effects of implicitly manipulated postures on processing speed and accuracy and whether these effects are mediated by general mood. The results revealed that subjects in our sample (N = 82, M = 23.09 years) who adopted an upright posture showed a more positive general mood (d = 0.50) and higher processing speed (d = 0.42) compared to those in stooped postures. Surprisingly, no differences in processing accuracy were found. There was no evidence of the proposed mediation in our data.

先前的实施例发现表明身体姿势和情绪状态之间的关系，表明直立姿势诱导积极的情绪状态。研究结果还显示了情绪和认知表现之间的关系。虽然发现积极情绪状态与提高处理速度有关，但消极情绪状态与认知任务表现中更高的处理准确性相关。这意味着姿势可能会通过情绪状态影响上述认知表现的子方面。此外，大多数关于姿势影响的研究依赖于明确的姿势操纵。考虑到这一点，我们的研究探索了隐式操纵姿势对处理速度和准确性的影响，以及这些影响是否由一般情绪介导。结果显示，我们样本中的受试者（N  = 82，M  = 23.09 岁 ）与弯腰姿势的人相比，采用直立姿势的人表现出更积极的总体情绪 ( d  = 0.50) 和更高的处理速度 ( d = 0.42)。令人惊讶的是，没有发现处理精度的差异。我们的数据中没有证据表明提议的调解。