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Research Interests

Karen Gasper is interested in affect and social cognition. Currently, her research examines the effect of both momentary and long-term feelings on information processing, the factors that influence affect regulation, and situational and individual differences in emotional understanding and experience. Some projects have investigated the influence of trait and state anxiety on judgment, the effect of mood on creativity, and the factors that reduce the influence of affect on information processing.

Recent Publications

Gasper, K. (2004). Do you see what I see? Affect and visual information processing. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 405-421.

Gasper, K. (2004). Permission to seek freely? The effect of happy and sad moods on generating old and new ideas. The Creativity Research Journal, 16, 215 - 229.

Gasper, K. (2003). When necessity is the mother of invention: Mood and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 248-262.

Gasper, K., & Clore, G. L. (2002). Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science, 13, 33-39.

Clore, G. L., & Gasper, K. (in press) Feeling is believing: Some cognitive consequences of affect. In N. Frijda, T. Manstead, & S. Bem (Eds.), Emotions and Beliefs. New York Cambridge University Press.

Clore, G. L., Wyer, R. S., Dienes, B., Gasper, K., Gohm, C., & Isbell, L. (in press). Affective feelings as feedback: Some cognitive consequences. In Martin, L. L. & Clore, G. L. (Eds.), Mood and Social Cognition Contrasting Theories. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gasper, K., & Clore, G. L. (2000). Do you have to pay attention to your feelings in order to be influenced by them? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 698 - 711.

Gasper, K., & Clore, G. L. (1998). The persistent use of negative affect by anxious individuals to estimate risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74,1350-1363.