Positive Affect Facilitates Task Switching in the Dimension Change Card Sort Task: Implications for the Shifting Aspect of Executive Functions

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Positive affect; Dimensional change card sort (DCCS); Task switching; Switch cost; Mixing cost; Restart cost; Cognition and Perception; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1514; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2770/viewcontent/PositiveAffect_facilitates_TaskSwitching_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Using the modified Dimensional Change Card Sort task, we examined the influence of positive affect on task switching by inspecting various markers for the costs, including restart cost, switch cost and mixing cost. Given that the executive-control processes that underlie switching performance—i.e.,...