On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments.

The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

“…Sad individuals, in contrast, are more likely to ignore heuristic shortcuts and to use effortful, vigilant processing even when it is not required, and therefore perform poorly in complex and timelimited situations (Gleicher & Weary, 1991). For example, in a recent study, sad participants displayed reduced accuracy of social judgments based on thin slices of nonverbal behavior (Ambady & Gray, 2002). The authors showed that sadness impaired accuracy by promoting a deliberative style of processing information, which can interfere with a person's ability to understand others.…”

Emotion Priming and Attributions for Terrorism: Americans' Reactions in a National Field Experiment

“…It looks for evidence of three possible response patterns. The first is that sadness triggers more causal attributions than does anger, due to the heightened level of active, deliberate processing associated with sadness (Alloy & Abramson, 1979;Ambady & Gray, 2002;Bodenhausen, 2000;Bodenhausen et al, 1994;Gleicher & Weary, 1991;Wenzlaff et al, 1988). The second, and contradictory, pattern is that sadness creates fewer causal attributions than anger, because anger arises from and gives rise to appraisals of justice and blame (Lazarus, 1991;Lerner et al, 1998).…”

“…Sadness and anger have been studied, however, in other relevant aspects of social information processing. For example, sadness triggers active, deliberative thought (Alloy & Abramson, 1979;Ambady & Gray, 2002;Bodenhausen, Gabriel, & Lineberger, 2000;Gleicher & Weary, 1991;Wenzlaff, Wegner, & Roper, 1988), whereas anger triggers relatively heuristic thought (Lerner, Goldberg, & Tetlock, 1998;Tiedens & Linton, 2001). In a direct comparison of these two negative emotions, sad people used more systematic, detail-oriented strategies than did angry people, including relying less on stereotypes and other heuristic cues (Bodenhausen, Sheppard, & Kramer, 1994).…”

Sensemaking in Virtual Teams: The Impact of Emotions and Support Tools on Team Mental Models and Team Performance

“…Note also that negative emotions do not necessarily inspire greater accuracy: sadness has been shown to impair the accuracy of various judgments (Ambady & Gray, 2002).…”