High and low affectively intense subjects were compared on endorsement ratings and incidental recall of positive, negative, and neutral trait adjectives rated for self-descriptiveness or other-descriptiveness. The effects of affect intensity were limited to endorsement patterns of positively valenced sell-referenced words; no significant findings were obtained for recall data. These findings suggest that intensity of affect does not appear to be a confounding factor in studies of mood and self-schematic information processing.
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