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...

Two studies investigate the effect of mood on the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes toward African Americans (Experiment 1) and implicit and explicit academic attitudes (Experiment 2). Because explicit and implicit attitudes are more related when people validate their automatic attitudes as true (the associative-propositional evaluation model) and because people tend to valid...

The exploration of mood and emotions in HCI is emerging as an important field of research. Our moods are affected by many different factors and can change multiple times throughout each day. Furthermore, our moods can have significant implications on our social interactions and our willingness to interact with others. We have developed MobiMood, a novel proof-of-concept social mobile applicatio...

Background Supporting mental health and wellness is of increasing interest due to a growing recognition the prevalence burden issues. Mood central aspect health, several technologies, especially mobile apps, have helped people track understand it. However, despite formative work on dissemination mood-tracking it not well understood how apps used in real-world contexts might benefit what hope ga...

The Information Systems (IS) field has begun to focus on automatic behavior, which is not based on reason-based theory. In this study, we investigate habitual information technology (IT) use as an automatic behavior. We focus on the mood(s) that factor(s) into habitual behavior. People automatically regulate their mood positively when they recognize tense moods. We categorize moods into two gro...

College students in dysphoric or nondysphoric moods studied pairs of words and later took a fragment-completion test of memory for targets from the pairs (under process-dissociation procedures for obtaining estimates of controlled and automatic retrieval; L. L. Jacoby, 1996). Between the study and test phases, some participants waited quietly for 7 min; others rated self-focused materials desig...