Emotions and Mood
Emotions and Mood: - Emotion is something which is short-lived. Emotion is specific event/situation-based but mood is not event/situation-based. Emotions are immense, discrete and action-oriented. On the other hand, mood is longer-lived, less intense, unclear, composed of multiple specific emotions and cognitive in nature. Mood is of two types: - 1. Positive Affect – Consists of specific positive emotions 2. Negative Affect – Consists of specific negative emotion Positivity Offset: - In any neutral situation, you feel mildly positive then it is considered as positivity offset. Sources of emotions and mood - There are several sources such as: - 1. Personality § Affect intensity - the degree to which any situation, person, event affects your emotions. 2. Time of the day – Research says th...