Mood

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Concept of Mood

   • William N. Morris

   Pages 1-10

3. Theories of Mood

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   Pages 11-18

4. Sources of Mood: Events of Affective Significance

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   Pages 19-33

5. Endogenous Factors Associated With Mood

   • Paula P. Schnurr

   Pages 35-69

6. The Influence of Mood on Thought and Behavior

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   Pages 71-124

7. Individual Differences in Mood

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   Pages 125-158

8. The Continuity Hypothesis

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   Pages 159-196

9. Postcript

   • William N. Morris

   Pages 197-203

10. Back Matter

    Pages 205-261

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This is a book about moods. Though I will define the term somewhat more carefully in Chapter 1, it might help to note here that I use the word "mood" to refer to affective states which do not stimulate the relatively specific response tendencies we associate with "emotions". Instead, moods are pervasive and global, having the capability of influencing a broad range of thought processes and behavior. My interest in mood was provoked initially by the empirical and conceptual contri­ butions of Alice Isen and her colleagues. What fascinated me most was the sugges­ tion first made in a paper by Clark & Isen (1982) that mood seemed to affect behavior in two very different ways, i. e. , mood could "automatically" influence the availabil­ ity of mood-related cognitions and, thereby, behavior, or mood, especially of the "bad" variety, might capture our attention in that if it were sufficiently aversive we might consciously try to get rid of it, a "controlled" or "strategic" response.

• Stimmung
• behavior
• cognition
• perception

• Department of Psychology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

  William N. Morris

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