ABSTRACT
Freud’s underlying model was that repression involved the splitting of instinctual energy from an unacceptable idea so that it could not reach consciousness. This objectless energy could still achieve expression, however, by attaching itself to an associated but harmless idea, which would then be propelled into consciousness. In the present chapter, this model are extrapolated from the domain of affective experience to the domain of cognitive experience more generally. The chapter shows that the mood-as-information model can serve as a more general model of judgment in which various kinds of cognitive experience act as information. It reviews the implications of an informational interpretation of the effects of mood on evaluative judgment, and they have extended the hypothesis to cover the role of what might be called “cognitive feelings” on judgments about knowing.
