Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of affect on occurrence of slip and mistake in reading. Thirty college students participated, and were equally assigned to one of three affect groups, anxious, angry, or happy. Each affect was induced by false feedback of social adaptation test. The participants then uttered presented words which consisted of affective words (the affective words for presentation) and non-affective words similar to affective words not used as the affective words for presentation(the manipulated words), and chose the correct meaning of each word. The number of errors and response time for utterrance in the manipulated words were measured. Three participants not induced expected affect were excluded from this analysis. It was found that more number of error (slip) occurred and response time was shorter in anxious group than happy. It was suggested that anxious persons tended to have a difficulty with attentional control so that many errors (slips) were occurred.
