Mood-congruent judgment is a general effect.
Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyPublished 1 July 1992
John D. Mayer, Yvonne N. Gaschke, Debra L. Braverman, Temperance W. Evans
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Abstract
Mood congruency refers to a match in affective content between a person's mood and his or her thoughts. The mood-congruent judgment effect states in part that attributes will be judged more characteristic, and events more likely, under conditions of mood congruence. Thus, the happy person will believe good weather is more likely than bad weather (relative to such a judgment in a state of mood incongruence). Three studies showed that the effect generalizes to non-self-relevant judgments with natural mood
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