Hello all,
I know we behave differently when we are happy and when we are sad. I have read trait activation too.
Can anybody share some research wherein the expression of a personality depends on the affect. Like the personality will act differently as per current mood.
a kind of two way relationship; good mood results in good behavior and good behavior leads to good mood; interestingly interrelated
Dear Usama,
Yes, our behavior depends on our mood or affective state. For example, there is accumulated evidence that shows that the more we are in a good mood the more prosocial and and altriuistic we tend to be. Robert Cialdini, for example, performed a series of researches that show that people are more prosocial and altruistic when they are in a good than negative or neutral mood. This is understandable. People in a good mood are more happy and less concerned with themselves then when they are in a negative or bad mood. In other words, the less concerned individuals are with themselves, the more they are available to be concerned with another's well-being. By definition, prosocial and altruistic behaviors are, say, decentered or others-oriented behaviors, not centered or self-oriented behaviors. This is just an example that shows that one's mood or affective sate determines the way we perform in certain situations.
So, this is a short answer to your question, but the set of researches carried out by R. Cialdini and his colleagues clearly show that one's mood affects one's behaviors.
This is a short answer because one's mood afects a myriad of one's behaviors, for example, one's academic achievements. Even so, I hope it helps.
Kind regards,
Orlando
Our mood is a thinking process of our mind & we should develop & control our mood by creating & happy environment thru psychological aspect & sometimes in order to understand our mood we should carry out our introspection in a right manner .
It is in this line we can control our behavior for which for carrying out our action & even our problems in a right manner .
It is in this line sometimes back I have publication under the captioned'' Behavior '' which I submit herewith for your kind perusal with a request to offer your valuable opinion
This is my personal opinion
My guess is that "mood", "emotion", "affect", etc., (which are not necessarily synonymous) engage networks or collections of behaviors more or less in a probablistic fashion. The behavior or behaviors that ultimately present are the output of an evolution-like process in which behavior (s) compete and the behavior (s) winning out are the most motivationally salient or relevant to the person in that particular moment (i.e., align with person's implicit or explicit goals).
a question that might be useful to ask in parallel is: are there behaviors that are unaffected by mood, emotion, affect, etc.? If so, what behaviors? Why?
What makes some behaviors or behavioral profiles more probablistic than others as a partial result of one's emotional state?
Orlando M Lourenço mentioned research on the relationship between one's emotional state and altruism. Is there something about negative emotions and less altruism that is phylogenically advantageous or positive emotions increasing the probability of altruistic behaviors?
Perhaps, grossly speaking, negative emotions signal that a person is in a state that, for one reason or another, requires or motivates change to resolve some obstacle, problem, or distress, while positive emotions signal that "things are ok" and one does not need the motivating influence of negative emotions to influence some particular change.
ultimately, it probably circles back to how we define, characterize, and conceptualize what emotions are and whether, or what, the function of them are
on a side note, when it comes to positive emotions I like the broaden and build theory.
a kind of two way relationship; good mood results in good behavior and good behavior leads to good mood; interestingly interrelated
Yes. the extent of success of our work strongly depends on our mood
Social psychology is based on the ABCs of affect, behavior, and cognition. In order to effectively maintain and enhance our own lives through successful interaction with others, we rely on these three basic and interrelated human capacities:
Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.
- Liz Miller
People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.
- Liz Miller
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.
- Hermann von Helmholtz
Dear Andrew,
Yes, there is something about negative emotions and less altruism. It has been found that one's distress decreases one's altruism and prosocial behavior. As I see it, the relation between one's behavior and one's emtions is reciprocal. On the one hand, emotions are, say, the energizer of any behavior such as A. Damásio has cogently argued. On the other hand, emotions are generally cognitive structured. So, an apparently same emotion can have different meanings and hence represent different motions. Consider the following example. Imagine a student that has fear to fail because s/he is afraid of getting, say, poor marks. This fear, however, has nothing to do with that of a student that has fear to fail because s/he is afraid of not not fulfilling his/her duties qua student. The forner can be considered a heteronomous fear and the latter an autonomus fear.
Best regards,
Orlando
Dear Dr. Usama,
Yes, there is a strong relation, and our behavior is closely affected by our mood.
Best regards,
Naseer Almukhtar
Itis very true. When one is in a good mood you are motivated to do good things. When my favourite team wins, everything else runs very smoothly in that week
Dear Orlanda, thank you for your comment. I would appreciate if you can share some empirical researches.
Dear Leonid, WOuld appreciate if you can share some empirical research.
Basis of our behaviour is dependent on our nature.
Expression of that original nature as behaviour is sometimes modified by our mood.
Thanks.
It is for our mental health necessary, to steer our moods by conscious cognition.
Mood science is just in the beginning, but the effect of moods on mental health is evident. Physical and psychological well-being depends on the steering of our moods. We are currently trying to quantify mental health by such an approach, starting with the first fetal heart beat and try to expand it to whole human life cycle.
Dear Usama,
I have not on me the series of researches performormed by Robert Cialdini & his colleagues. You may perform a Google search and find some studies that relate one's behavior and one's mood,
I hope you find it.
Best regards.
Orlando
Yes, sometimes our behavior depends on our mood. Please refer to the following articles:
Kong, X. (2018). The Relationship Between Power, Mood, and Behaviour. Western Undergraduate Psychology Journal, 6(1).
Cabiya-Morales, J. J., Padilla, L., Sayers-Montalvo, S., Pedrosa, O., Pérez-Pedrogo, C., & Manzano-Mojica, J. (2007). Relationship between aggressive behavior, depressed mood, and other disruptive behavior in Puerto Rican children diagnosed with attention deficit and disruptive behaviors disorders. Puerto Rico health sciences journal, 26(1).
Best
Noori
Yes.....definitely it is. Sometimes we may try and finally become successful to control it a bit..........but not totally. The following two great quotes may supplement and contribute to a big way on what I want to say:
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom".........Viktor E. Frankl
"People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide".........Travis Bradberry
dear Orlando,
thank you for your responses and contributions to this thread
lots of activity on this question!
Thank you abdullah for sharing the researches. however, in first research the mood did not have significant influence and second research was on Adhd children
In general, the mood is seen as a rather static emotional basis that varies according to the mental state and is similar to the state of the body in its various situations and the emotional changes that are related to what the individual experiences in his life. These are called mood systems which include methods of emotional activity, which are explained by different motivations. This organization appears in the individual's tendencies, desires and moods.
No, our reaction depends on the mood while our behavior depends on our being.
King James Bible:
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; ...and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbios 16:32
Mejor es el lento para la ira que el poderoso, y el que domina su espíritu que el que toma una ciudad.
Yes it does. This is the reason one does behavioral test to find for the new drug targets in the mood disorders like depression and mania.
Mood-dependent behaviors are generally expressions of an underlying emotional state, rather than mindfully directed toward meaningful goals. You can be confident that you are engaging in mood-dependent behavior when you are acting in a certain way specifically because of how you are feeling.
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