Table 3.

Effects of Ability and Motivation on the Influence of Affect on Attitudes: Experiment 3 (Low Motivation)

	Effect of affect
Condition	Positive affect	Negative affect	Difference
High ability
Control	0.6	−0.7	1.3*
Affect focus	−0.7	0.3	−1.0
Low ability
Control	−0.1	0.1	−0.2
Affect focus	0.3	−1.2	1.5*

Note. Differences represent the influence of affect on attitudes, which we represent by subtracting mean attitudes when affect was negative from mean attitudes when affect was positive.

^*p < .05.