Emotional states of individuals, also known as moods, are central to the expression of thoughts, ideas and opinions, and in turn impact attitudes and behavior. As social media tools are increasingly used by individuals to broadcast their day-to-day happenings, or to report on an external event of interest, understanding the rich ‘landscape’ of moods will help us better interpret and make sense ...

Some people cope with negative moods by retrieving positive memories, which is mood-incongruent recall. Though mood-incongruent recall is helpful for mood-regulation, the factors that influence people's ability to utilize mood-incongruent recall are not well understood. This study investigated whether complex knowledge structure is a factor for the ability of mood-incongruent recall, based on s...

The authors tested whether happy moods increase, and sad moods decrease, reliance on general knowledge structures. Participants in happy, neutral, or sad moods listened to a "going-out-for-dinner" story. Happy participants made more intrusion errors in recognition than did sad participants, with neutral mood participants falling in between (Experiments 1 and 2). Happy participants outperformed ...

Repeated retrieval of a subset of previously observed events can cause forgetting of the non-retrieved events. We examined how affective states experienced during retrieval modulate such retrieval-induced forgetting by inducing positive, negative, and neutral moods in subjects immediately before they attempted to retrieve studied items. On the basis of recent work, we hypothesized that positive...

According to the received view (for example [9]), there are three logico-semantic moods: indicative, imperative and interrogative, and there are two main components in natural language sentences: modal element (which determines sentence’s mood) and sentence radical. On the other hand, it seems that the received view on the sentence components is challenged by the fact that there are two ways to...

This little book contains some very interesting' and carefully written articles on questions not often placed before the public in a comprehensive way. The author has divided his subject into Thoughtland, Dreamland, Cloudland, the Land of Forgetfulness, Spiritland, Will, Self, Work, Rest, and the Burden of Life. Concerning Thoughtland we are told: "To a few Thoughtland is elysium; to many ' it ...

fih-e-ma-fih is one of the most important works of molavi in which there are deep issues about holly mohammad and his position. we plan to analyze the molavi's distinct attitude toward mohammad by comparing him to other prophets in fih-e-ma-fih at this paper, a fact which can analyze molavi's point of view thoroughly about this subject at two chapters: first, mohammad's path and ...