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For those who are mood congruent, mood generally has a positive relationship with goal motivation, which presents a major opportunity to designers of public health information. [11] According to this line of thought, establishing a positive mood state within the emotional feel of a message and then psychologically connecting that state to the ...
Examples: Congruent mood—smiling while feeling happy. Non-congruent mood—smiling while feeling anxious. Inappropriate affect—laughing while describing a loved one's funeral, for instance. Mood Congruency is strongest when people try to recall personally meaningful episodes, because such events were most likely to be colored by their moods ...
For example, the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ) [10] was administered to a sample of college students and a sample of psychiatric patients. The correlations between the specific anxiety scale (anxious arousal) in the MASQ and NA were moderate (rs= .41 and .47), supporting that NA is specific to anxiety disorders, congruent with ...
The idea of social mood as a "collectively shared state of mind" (Nofsinger 2005; Olson 2006) is attributed to Robert Prechter and his socionomics. The notion is used primarily in the field of economics (investments). In sociology, philosophy, and psychology, crowd behavior is the formation of a common mood directed toward an object of ...
Mood repair strategies offer techniques that an individual can use to shift their mood from general sadness or clinical depression to a state of greater contentment or happiness. A mood repair strategy is a cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal psychological tool used to affect the mood regulation of an individual.
The enhancing effects of emotional arousal on later memory recall tend to be maintained among older adults and the amygdala shows relatively less decline than many other brain regions. [75] However, older adults also show somewhat of a shift towards favoring positive over negative information in memory, leading to a positivity effect .
Scholarly work has noted the problematic nature of using the terms “emotion”, “affect” and “mood” interchangeably. [1] A lack of thorough understanding of these concepts could influence the choice of measures used in assessing the emotional components of interest in a study, leading to a less optimal research result.
However, the research literature on context-dependent memory describes a number of different types of contextual information that may affect recall such as environmental context-dependent memory, state-dependent memory, cognitive context-dependent memory and mood-congruent memory. [1]. Research has also shown that context-dependence may play an ...