Extension of personal time, affective states, and expectation of personal death.

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An individual's affective state may causally influence his extension of personal time into the future (his protension). The present study tested the hypotheses that: (1) positive affect tends to lengthen protension, and (2) negative affect tends to shorten protension. In a pretest-manipulation-posttest design, 147 undergraduate men and women were assigned to 1 of 3 affect arousals: anticipating a pleasant experience, an unpleasant experience, or personal death. The dependent variable of protension was assessed by a personal association (PA) measure and by a TAT measure. The hypotheses were clearly supported by the PA data, but not by the TAT data. The study demonstrated a mediating mechanism which may be in part responsible for earlier observations and findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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