This is the first series of experiments to examine the influence and relationship between mood and performance on category learning tasks, and this dissertation’s unique
contribution to knowledge is that positive mood enhances performance on rule-based category learning tasks. Further, my results show that depressive symptoms are negatively related to performance on rule-based category learning tasks, but positive mood contributes more unique variance to performance than depressive symptoms.
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