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This study was designed to simultaneously analyze the influence of mood and interpersonal affect on the performance appraisal process. Results suggest that affect consistency, as opposed to mood consistency, is likely to influence the weighting of recalled performance information and ratings subsequently assigned. Surprisingly, a mood-incongruent effect also occurred when weighting the performance information. Aside from affective influences, the raters assigned the most weight to positive performance incidents, however, the raters remembered more of the negative performance. Implications for appraisal practice and directions for future research are discussed.
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Robbins, T.L., DeNisi, A.S. Mood vs. Interpersonal Affect: Identifying Process and Rating Distortions in Performance Appraisal. Journal of Business and Psychology 12, 313–325 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025075430010
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