The research is to explore the effects of positive emotions on the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires. We conducted two experiments with 125 college students as subjects. In each, participants viewed a film that elicited happiness, serenity, neutrality, sorrow or anger. Scope of attention was assessed using a global-local visual processing task ( experiment 1) and thought-action repertoires were assessed using a Twenty State-ments Test (experiment 2) . The results showed that: the impact of positive emotions on the attentional scope was influenced by gender, positive emotions broaden the attentional scope of girls but narrowed the scope of boys;positive emotions broadened thought-action repertoires, with no difference in gender.