Mood contagion is an automatic mechanism that induces a congruent mood state by means of the observation of another person's emotional expression. In this paper, we address the question whether robot mood displayed during an imitation game can (a) be recognized by participants and (b) produce contagion effects. Robot mood was displayed by applying a generic framework for mood expression using b...

williams, watts, macleod and mathews' (1988) model of anxiety and depression leads to the prediction that anxious patients will show mood – congreuent implicit memory bias, while depressed patients will show mood-congruent explicit memory bias.although this prediction has been supported by some researchers (denny & hunt, 1992 mathews, moog, et al , 1989 watkins, et al, 1992), the reliabili...

This experiment examined six short texts for their effectiveness in inducing positive or negative mood in an online environment. Compared to two control groups, the texts successfully changed mood in the desired direction for mood measured on a single-item self-report scale. In accordance with previous research, negative mood was induced more effectively than positive mood. In addition to the s...

purpose :   this study was designed to compare the effects of two different relaxation techniques, namely progressive muscle relaxation (pmr) and autogenic relaxation (agr) on moods of young soccer players . methods :   sixteen adolescent athletes (mean age: 14.1 ± 1.3) received either pmr or agr training. using profile of mood states-adolescents, their mood states were measured one week before...

This study examined whether attentional biases for emotional information are associated with impaired mood recovery following a sad mood induction among individuals with and without major depressive disorder (MDD). Attentional biases were assessed with an exogenous cuing task using emotional facial expressions as cues among adults with (n = 48) and without (n = 224) current MDD. Mood reactivity...