Most are familiar with the biblical warnings about false prophets presenting as the wolf in sheep's clothing, but in this issue of Blood, Mansoor and colleagues expose a sheep in wolf's clothing by shining a bright light on a newly described benign disease previously pretending to be a very bad malignancy, and doing so quite convincingly.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a personal goal-based intervention on positive and negative moods among young athletes at a soccer academy. Study participants (N = 22) were randomized into either a treatment group, which participated in a personal goal-management program (Bouffard, Labelle, Dubé, & Lapierre, 1999), or a neutral-task control group. Participants’ mood states ...

Memory is susceptible to illusions in the form of false memories. Prior research found, however, that sad moods reduce false memories. The current experiment had two goals: (1) to determine whether affect influences retrieval processes, and (2) to determine whether affect influences the strength and the persistence of false memories. Happy or sad moods were induced either before or after learni...

palestinian woman poets have frequently used mythical concepts, especially those of god's messengers, in their poems, and they have sometimes been inspired by these myths. although myths have ancient origins, they endow the contemporary poet's thoughts with a deep scope, while, at the same time, the poet reprocesses them and give them the present day flavour. therefore, most poems by ...

Using a total of 20 million mood-annotated blog posts harvested between June 2005 and March 2006, we provide a time series analysis of the number of blog posts annotated with a mood. State-space methods are used to determine decompositions of the time series data associated with bloggers’ moods (either individual or aggegrated), allowing us to look for patterns of trend, seasonality and cycle. ...

According to intentionalism, phenomenal properties are identical to, supervenient on, or determined by representational properties. Intentionalism faces a special challenge when it comes to accounting for the phenomenal character of moods. First, it seems that no intentionalist treatment of moods can capture their apparently undirected phenomenology. Second, it seems that even if we can come up...