Lerner and Keltner Provided Evidence for Mood-Congruent Judgments, Meaning People's

Multiple Choice

Lerner and Keltner provided evidence for mood-congruent judgments, meaning people's emotions influence their judgments about how likely different emotional events are. What is the highest level of emotional specificity at which these mood-congruent effects occur?

A) Discrete emotions, such as sadness and anger, have specific effects on emotion-congruent event judgments
B) Valence is the highest level of specificity; positive emotions increase judgments of positive event likelihoods, and negative emotions increase likelihood estimates about negative events
C) Arousal is the highest level of specificity; high-arousal moods make people estimate high-intensity events as more likely
D) Mood-congruent effects are general to all emotions, meaning if someone is experiencing an intense emotion, they will judge all positive and negative emotional events to be more likely to occur