OBJECTIVE This study examined women's moods on work and off days during different phases of the menstrual cycle. METHOD Self-reports of the moods angry, happy, sad, stressed, tired, and anxious were obtained on two work and two off days during the luteal and follicular phases of the menstrual cycle in 203 nurses. Individual differences in anger expression, anxiety, and hostility were assessed...

Internet-based research conducted in partnership with paid crowdworkers and volunteer citizen scientists is an increasingly common method for collecting data from large, diverse populations. We wanted to leverage webbased citizen science to gain insights into phenomena that are part of people’s everyday lives. To do this, we developed the concept of a Massive Open Online Diary (MOOD). A MOOD is...

This paper reports the results of an experiment investigating the effect of induced anger on interpretational bias using the homophone spelling task. Four groups of participants experienced anger, anxiety, happy or neutral mood inductions and then completed the homophone spelling task. Participants who experienced anger and anxiety inductions reported significantly more threat/neutral homophone...

Moods influence cognitive processes in that people in positive moods expect more positive events to occur and less negative ones (“optimistic bias”), whereas the opposite happens for people in negative moods (“pessimistic bias”). The evidence for an effect of mood on cognitive bias is also increasing in animals, suggesting that measures of optimism and pessimism could provide useful indicators ...

This paper examines elements from Piaget’s and Scherer’s theories that are able to offer subsidies for the specification of the affective aspects involved in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The affective dimension is characterized by the moods manifested during interactions in virtual space by affective portion of psychological subject. To figure moods out is a way to personalize the pedag...

hand, they have made forecasts of the future where fancy has been allowed to reign in attempting to foretell what is likely to happen in our department, and to depict, in eloquent and fascinating descriptions, the anticipated improvements which our successors will achieve either by their own efforts or by building on the foundations of their predecessors. Truth, however, surpasses fiction in ma...

One of the main issues in the Islamic knowledge is the divine revelation made to the Prophet (s). Of particular interest in this regard is the revelation of the Qur’ān to the Prophet (s) and its manner. This is one of the disputed discussions among the exegetes and the scholars of the qur’ānic sciences. The source of this discussion is comprised of numerous narrations that are found in the narr...

The present study replicates and extends Mealey and Theis's (1993) research on the way in which moods adaptively incline individuals toward different types of landscapes. Mealey and Theis hypothesized that positive moods encourage exploration, so they predicted that individuals reporting positive moods would prefer landscapes marked by Prospect (vast expanses and overviews). They hypothesized t...