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Moods and motivations: An investigation of negative moods, consumer behaviors, and the process of mood-management
… behavior. It has been suggested that negative moods encourage the pursuit of behaviors that interrupt the mood and restore arousal to normal levels. This dissertation examines consumer experiences of different negative moods (depressive, anxious, and irritated) and develops a methodology for …
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A Series of Collage Drawings Expressing Metaphysical Moods
The problem. A series of collage drawings to express the artist's personal involvement with peculiar relationships between supernatural and normal conditions or events in life which form a metaphysical reality. Procedure. To develop a large group of representational images and settings taken from …
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Managing bipolar moods without medication : a qualitative investigation
… a ‘lack of insight’ into the nature of bipolar moods and medication. However, research has not examined the individual’s experiences once they decide to manage bipolar moods without medication. The empirical paper presented here seeks to elucidate the processes by which people manage bipolar …
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Experience Sampling Events, Moods, Behaviors, and Performance at Work
Sixty-seven individuals in a call center provided ESM data by responding to palmtop computers at randomly scheduled intervals 5--6 times a day for 3 weeks. These data were matched to objective task performance obtained from organizational call records. Sixty-seven percent of variance in hedonic …
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Beyond Heuristic Information Processing: Systematic Processing in Happy and Sad Moods
… In Experiments 1 and 2, participants whose moods were experimentally manipulated formed an impression of a target described by initial trait adjectives followed by a series of behaviors that were both consistent and inconsistent with these adjectives. Happy participants were more inclined …
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Wayward as the Minnehaha with her moods of shade and sunshine
In a world which is increasingly occularcentric, architecture has the opportunity to reinvigorate experience with designs based on the perceptual systems of the human body. In comparison with the sense organs of other animals, humans are capable of acquiring information about the world almost …
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Bad moods and attitudes: Neural correlates of state and trait negative affect
Trait and state negative affect contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathology, though the mechanisms through which they exert their effects remain unclear. The present study was motivated by the hypothesis that attentional-control deficits will help to understand the biological …
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Investigating relationships between women's moods and their menstrual cycles - a multimethod study
… between a woman’s menstrual-cycle and her moods. Twenty eight participants were recruited using convenience sampling. Each participant provided data for two full menstrual cycles by taking part in a pre and post-study in-depth interview; answering a structured daily self-report diary …
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The warm glow of motherhood; exploring the moods of new mothers through imagery
… of motherhood while thinking about their moods and emotions. Semi- structured interviews were conducted, with the created images used as the focus of the interview. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was adopted as the main methodological approach, with an additional analysis of the …
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Miss Ü : KiKi & BoBo : a design for sharing moods in long-distance relationships
The thesis presents "Miss Ü: KiKi & BoBo," a prototype product to help couples in a long-distance relationship stay connected in a warm, tangible way. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for us to work or study all over the globe. With the distance and time difference, it is important for couples to keep …
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The Relationship of a Hospital Merger to Elicited Moods and Feelings of the Merging and Merged Professional Nursing Staff
… study are as follows:<br> 1. To determine the moods of the merging nurses four years following the merging of their institution.<br> 2. To determine the moods of the merged nurses four years following the merger of their institution.<br> 3. To compare and contrast the elicited moods of the …
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Application of Lewin's Change Process to Nurses in Employment Transition
… and are as follows:<br> 1. To determine the moods of the merging nurses prior to an impending merger.<br> 2. To determine the moods of the merging nurses six months following the merger of their institution.<br> 3. To examine the differences between the nurses moods initially and after six …
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Urban soundscapes: the effect of auditory stimulation on mood
Negative moods can lead to a variety of negative health outcomes. Although we know how people’s reactions to a variety of visual elements can increase or decrease their moods, we know a great deal less about the extent to which sounds in the landscape influence mood. What is the relationship …
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Towards a mood sensitive integrated development environment to enhance the performance of programmers
… to study this idea. However, the impact of moods on programmer performance was initially examined in the literature. Based on this, a Cognitive Programming Task Model (CPTM) was developed showing that various cognitive functions and programming activities are interrelated. A second model …
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Cohésion modale et subordination : Le conditionnel et le jussif finnois au miroir de la valeur sémantique et discursive du subjonctif français
… The Finnish conditional and jussive moods in comparison to the French subjunctive This study examines verb moods in subordinate clauses in French and Finnish. The first part of the analysis deals with the syntax and semantics of the French subjunctive, mood occurring mostly in …
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The Impact of Air Pollution on the Stock Market in South Korea
… researchers have produced many articles about moods effect on financial market. Weather factors and sports sentiments have a significant impact on moods and then the moods affect financial market. Air pollution also has an effect on financial market. This paper's hypothesis is that air …
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Fictional Writing: The Role of Positive Affect and Empathic Concern
… was to examine fictional writing, the positive moods produced by fictional writing, and the ability to empathize and fantasize as predictors of helping behavior. Forty-four female student participants (ranging in age from 18- 26) at Texas State University-San Marcos were randomly assigned to …
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