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...

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. ...

Past research has revealed a mood-congruency bias wherein people evaluate other individuals more positively when they are experiencing good moods than when they are experiencing bad moods. At times, however, people may attempt to prevent their transient mood states from biasing their evaluations of other people. It was proposed that the capacity to attend openly to one s moods is an important p...

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...

Three experiments showed that mood influences achievement attributions and that cognitive processes underlie these effects. In Experiment 1, happy Ss made more internal and stable attributions for success than failure in typical 'life dilemmas'. In Experiment 2, attributions for real-life exam performance were more internal and stable in a happy than in a sad mood. Dysphoric moods resulted in s...

UNLABELLED MOODS (MOtif Occurrence Detection Suite) is a software package for matching position weight matrices against DNA sequences. MOODS implements state-of-the-art online matching algorithms, achieving considerably faster scanning speed than with a simple brute-force search. MOODS is written in C++, with bindings for the popular BioPerl and Biopython toolkits. It can easily be adapted for ...

The personal, diary-like nature of blogs prompts many bloggers to indicate their mood at the time of posting. Aggregating these indications over a large amount of bloggers gives a “blogosphere state-of-mind” for each point in time: the intensity of different moods among bloggers at that time. In this paper, we address the task of estimating this state-of-mind from the text written by bloggers. ...