There are several limitations are as follows:
1.Manipulation of mood is not easy to proceed because we can't control the original mood state of participants. Thus, we may fail to manipulate mood if participants' mood state are influenced by other incontrollable factors.
2.It's hard to manipulate to high involvement because of the different personal
condition of participants. Future study should try to improve the involvement by other ways.
The three studies also raise several issues relevant to further research on correction of mood bias. First, this study use tagline as a mood reminder to heighten the effect of mood bias. For participants who are not read target carefully may ignore the tagline.
Future study can remind the participants by using other effective cue to avoid the question.
Second, future can add the control group of low involvement to be a comparison of high involvement.
Third, the questions for detection of mood bias by participants are not be proven successfully may result from participant who didn't detect the mood bias. Future can focus on that question carefully and make a revision of the question.
Fourth, the timing for collection of sample in this study are not proper to manipulate the participants' mood and lead to failure on manipulation of neutral mood , future study can pay more attention to the situation of participants.
Fifth, to compare the effect of correction between study2 and study3 more precisely, future can conduct a new experiment which add crossword puzzle in the neutral mood study to be a comparison to study2.
Finally, this study discussed the bias factor which can affect the direction of judgmental correction. Future study can examine other factors which can cause the correction by people.
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