title: Mood-congruent cognitions constitute mood experience.
abstract: Three studies tested the assumption of a dispositional theory of moods that mood-related cognitions constitute essential parts of the phenomenal mood experience. In Study 1, after a hot- versus a cold-, sad-, or angry-mood induction, participants reported their momentary moods and their momentary mood-related cognitions. Self-reported moods and mood-related cognitions changed in a strictly parallel fashion in all mood induction groups. A mediation analysis showed that the influences of distraction on moods were completely mediated by changes in mood-related cognitions. Study 2 replicated the central findings of Study 1 with a musical mood induction procedure. Study 3 showed that the findings do not depend on the explicit manipulation of moods. The results support the tested assumption.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Griefswald, Germany. masiemer@psych.stanford.edu
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siemer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005260:Female; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D015203:Reproducibility of Results