Moods in everyday situations: effects of menstrual cycle, work, and personality.

How reward and emotional stimuli induce different reactions across the menstrual cycle.

Despite widespread belief that moods are affected by the menstrual cycle, researchers on emotion and reward have not paid much attention to the menstrual cycle until recently. However, recent research has revealed different reactions to emotional stimuli and to rewarding stimuli across the different phases of the menstrual cycle. The current paper reviews the emerging literature on how ovarian ...

Effects of menstrual cycle moods and symptoms on academic performance: a study of senior secondary school students.

BACKGROUND Menstrual cycle moods and symptoms may well play a discernible role in the academic performance of some post-pubescent adolescent female students. AIMS It was expected that menstrually related moods and symptoms would have both negative and positive influences on academic learning outcomes, and that the magnitude of these effects would be directly proportional to the salience of su...

Menstrual Cycle as Focus of Study and Self-Reports of Moods and Behaviors

Affective influences on the halo effect in impression formation

Can good or bad moods influence people’s tendency to rely on irrelevant information when forming impressions (halo effects)? On the basis of recent work on affect and cognition, this experiment predicted and found that positive affect increased and negative affect eliminated the halo effect. After an autobiographical mood induction (recalling happy or sad past events), participants (N= 246) rea...

The menstrual cycle, personality, and academic performance.

Considerable research supports the widespread complaint of mood and behavioral changes during the menstrual cycle. However, there is little evidence of effects on intellectual performance, even though students commonly complain of it. We studied the results obtained by 244 female medical and paramedical students in all examinations taken during one year. In view of suspected correlations betwee...