Good Mood Research Articles

Six days of study. The way to reduce the efficiency of the educational process

This article is about the impact of a four-day, five-day, six-day school week on the productivity and academic achievement of students, as well as their morale. We considered such extremely important components of education, for example, as study time and effort, which affects the process of reflection, and therefore these components determine how well and deeply a student will assimilate the knowledge acquired at the university. As part of the research, a survey was also conducted, in which 165 students from various faculties of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Respondents expressed their judgments about the six-day school week, its impact on their productivity, physical, neuropsychological and moral-emotional state. We conducted an analysis of previous works and determined that academic success does not depend on the amount of study time spent on study, but on the contrary, this process is related to motivation, good mood, neuropsychological state, degrees of fatigue and the ability to rest. We also did not ignore the aspect of anxiety, so we interviewed students about this phenomenon. 62% of respondents noted that with the beginning of the six-day study at the university, the level of anxiety increased significantly. Which certainly has a negative impact on the academic performance of students, as well as directly on the learning process.

Too Tired and in Too Good of a Mood to Worry About Privacy: Explaining the Privacy Paradox Through the Lens of Effort Level in Information Processing

Policy-oriented Abstract Data privacy is one of the most pressing issues today. The world is thirsty for novel, effective, and efficient policies to strike an appropriate balance between protecting individuals’ privacy and creating economic value from their personal information. Whereas governmental efforts, such as the enaction of General Data Protection Regulation, California Consumer Privacy Act, and other privacy regulations, have been pushing boundaries to strike this balance, the effects of these types of initiatives on individuals’ privacy awareness and behavior are uncertain, likely to be nuanced, and will take time to sort out. In this paper, we explain the privacy paradox, a phenomenon with important implications that apply to policymakers, industry professionals, and individuals. The privacy paradox refers to a mismatch between individuals’ stated privacy concerns and their actual disclosure behaviors. In three behavioral experiments, we show how the paradox is revealed when individuals are cognitively tired especially when they are in a good mood. These findings do not indicate that individuals do not care about privacy because they do when they are not cognitively tired especially when they are in a bad mood. By explaining the privacy paradox, we inform existing and future privacy policies to strike that balance we all strive for.

Positive and negative facial valence perception are modulated differently by eccentricity in the parafovea

Understanding whether people around us are in a good, bad or neutral mood can be critical to our behavior, both when looking directly at them or when they are in our peripheral visual field. However, facial expressions of emotions are often investigated at central visual field or at locations right or left of fixation. Here we assumed that perception of facial emotional valence (the emotion’s pleasantness) changes with distance from central visual field (eccentricity) and that different emotions may be influenced differently by eccentricity. Participants (n = 58) judged the valence of emotional faces across the parafovea (≤ 4°, positive (happy), negative (fearful), or neutral)) while their eyes were being tracked. As expected, performance decreased with eccentricity. Positive valence perception was least affected by eccentricity (accuracy reduction of 10–19% at 4°) and negative the most (accuracy reduction of 35–38% at 4°), and this was not a result of speed-accuracy trade-off or response biases. Within-valence (but not across-valence) performance was associated across eccentricities suggesting perception of different valences is supported by different mechanisms. While our results may not generalize to all positive and negative emotions, they indicate that beyond-foveal investigations can reveal additional characteristics of the mechanisms that underlie facial expression processing and perception.

Jonas Björk.

"The most exciting thing about research is the rare eureka moment when you understand the essence of something you struggled with for a long time … I'm always in a good mood when I walk by myself in the forest. …" Find out more about Jonas Björk in his Introducing … Profile.

ROLE OF JOB SATISFACTION, WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND JOB EMBEDDEDNESS ON TURNOVER INTENTION NURSE IN DENPASAR

This study aims to analyze the mediating role of job satisfaction on the effect of work life balance and job embeddedness on nurses turnover intention. The survey was conducted on 75 female nurses at a private hospital in Denpasar City with incidental sampling technique.The results of the study show that directlyJob satisfaction and work life balance have a negative effect on nurses turnover intention and work life balance and job embeddedness have a positive effect on job satisfaction. The low level of job embeddedness has a less than optimal effect on nurses turnover intention. New findings from this study may explain how mediating job satisfaction is very important for nurses women at a private hospital in Denpasar, Turnover intention has an impact on the business continuity of private hospitals during the pandemic. Thus, this research can contribute greatly, especially the study of work life balance can make nurses have a good mood at home. Therefore, for hospitals during a pandemic, nurses must feel comfortable and survive in any conditions. The value of a good job embeddedness will have an impact on the value of the sincerity of employees to work well, this is a positive thing that can be applied by every organization. Support for employees from the company through an interpersonal relationship approach to discuss problems in their families and social lives from the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, is very important, which will strengthen each hospital to continue to run its business in the future. KEYWORDS: Job Satisfaction, Work Life Balance, Job Embeddedness, Turnover Intention

Enrico Salvadori

"Chemistry is fun because it is the science of change, nothing really rests. Even solid-state materials breathe, jiggle and morph … I'm always in a good mood when I see "that" sparkle in the eyes of my students …" Find out more about Enrico Salvadori in his Introducing … Profile.

“I can tell he is in a good mood.” Embodied aspects of information in human-animal relationship

In a multispecies family, both humans and animals learn how to live together through embodied experiences and beyond the verbal transmission of information. This paper, based on a pilot study about information that makes meaning in multispecies families, aims to highlight embodied aspects of information that shape human-animal shared daily activities. Drawing on posthumanism and hermeneutic phenomenology; four multispecies families participated in semi-structured interviews about their family and video tours of their households. A combination of inductive and deductive coding was applied to the verbal and non-verbal data collected. The codes included a range of different senses, functions of the body, feelings from inside the body, the body’s appearance, etc. The results show how information moves across animal and human bodies. The categories of body as a thing, moving body, acting body, and sensing body shape different ways of experiencing, expressing and enacting information among human and nonhuman participants. Shared embodied information enables animals and humans to read the meaning of their intentions and actions and create intersubjective understanding and meaning in their relationship.

Raúl Hernández Sánchez

"My group has fun by eating pizza. Pizza party has become a ritual every time there are good news in the group … I'm always in a good mood when I see my baby daughter smile …" Find out more about Raúl Hernández Sánchez in his Introducing … Profile.

Aurélien de la Torre

"When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, food taster, football and basketball player (all at the same time) … I'm always in a good mood when I head to the bar at the end of a working day …" Find out more about Aurélien de la Torre in his Introducing … Profile.

Aurélien de la Torre

Graphical Abstract “When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, food taster, football and basketball player (all at the same time) … I'm always in a good mood when I head to the bar at the end of a working day …” Find out more about Aurélien de la Torre in his Introducing … Profile.

What we bet on is not only tangible money, but also good mood

ABSTRACT A surprisingly large number of lottery prizes go unclaimed every year. This leads us to suspect that what people bet on is not only money, but also good mood. We conducted three studies to explain, from an emotional perspective, why people play lottery games. We first conducted two survey studies to assess mood state reported by online (Study 1a) and offline lottery buyers (Study 1b) at different stages of lottery play. The results revealed that participants’ highest mood appeared before knowing whether they had won. In Study 2, we manipulated the means of reward (lottery tickets vs. cash) and compared participants’ mood changes at different stages of a rewards game in the laboratory. We found the following: first, lottery group participants were generally in a better mood; second, 42% of lottery group participants did not come to the laboratory to collect scratch cards; and third, lottery group participants took more time to return to the laboratory to check their tickets than participants in the cash group. In Study 3, we examined whether priming good or bad mood could influence participants’ preferences for cash versus lottery tickets. The results revealed that participants who were primed for poor mood had a higher preference for lottery tickets compared with their good mood counterparts. These findings suggest that what our participants sought in lottery play was not only money, but improved mood.

“IMPACT OF MUSIC ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF POST GRADUATE STUDENTS OF SELECTED UNIVERSITY OF VADODARA”

In a previous study we demonstrated that listening to a pleasant music while performing an academic test helped students to overcome stress, to devote more time to more stressful and more complicated task and the grades were higher. Music puts us in a better mood, which makes us better at studying – but it also distracts us, which makes us worse at studying. So if you want to study effectively with music, you want to reduce how distracting music can be, and increase the level to which the music keeps you in a good mood. The study also suggests that duration of music participation impacts academic achievement. Music that is relaxing also helps students with stress and anxiety, thus leading them to study more efficiently. Research has found that listening to music actually lowers your cortical levels.

Mood and Wellbeing

ABSTRACT The two main subjectivist accounts of wellbeing, hedonism and desire-satisfactionism, focus on pleasure and desire (respectively) as the subjective states relevant to evaluating the goodness of a life. In this paper, I argue that another type of subjective state, mood, is much more central to wellbeing. After a general characterization of some central features of mood (§1), I argue that the folk concept of happiness construes it as preponderance of good mood (§2). I then leverage this connection between mood and happiness to argue that having certain mood patterns in one’s life is sufficient for having a good life (§3), and explore their potential necessity for a good life (§4). I close with discussion of the role that mood patterns might play within the three leading philosophical theories of wellbeing: hedonism (§5), desire-satisfactionism (§6), and objective-list theory (§7).

How do Good and Bad News Impact Mood During the Covid-19 Pandemic? The Role of Similarity

How do media reports about the Covid-19 pandemic influence our mood? Building on the social comparison theory, we predicted that reading negative news affecting a similar group would result in an impaired mood. In contrast, reading negative news about a dissimilar group should lead to an improved mood. To test this, 150 undergraduate students read positive or negative news about the well-being of a similar or dissimilar group during the pandemic. As predicted, a mood assimilation effect occurred for similar groups, whilst a contrast effect occurred for a dissimilar group. The findings suggest that media reports can have a strong impact on mood. The direction of these effects, however, seems to depend strongly on social comparison processes.

EEG-based emotion recognition using random Convolutional Neural Networks

Emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is helpful in various fields, including medical healthcare. One possible medical application is to diagnose emotional disorders in patients. Humans tend to work and communicate efficiently when in a good mood. On the other hand, negative emotions can harm physical and mental health. Traditional EEG-based methods usually extract time-domain and frequency-domain features before classifying them. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enables us to extract features and classify them end-to-end. However, most CNN methods use backpropagation to train their models, which can be computationally expensive, primarily when a complex model is used. Inspired by the successes of Random Vector Functional Link and Convolutional Random Vector Functional Link, we propose using a randomized CNN model for emotion recognition that removes the need for a backpropagation method. Also, we expand our randomized CNN method to a deep and ensemble version to improve emotion recognition performance. We do experiments on the commonly used publicly available Database for Emotion Analysis using the Physiological Signals (DEAP) dataset to evaluate our randomized CNN models. Results on the DEAP dataset show our models outperform all other models, with at least 95% accuracy for all subjects. Our ensemble version outperforms our shallow version, winning the shallow version in most subjects.

Music for Health: From Ear to Kidney.

Music for Health: From Ear to Kidney.

STUDY PROFIL MOOD ATLET PENCAK SILAT PADA KEJUARAAN MATARAM CUP TAHUN 2022

The background of the problem in this study is about the mood of athletes competing in the 2022 Mataram Cup Championship. Mood is a temporary emotional state. Mood or mood can indeed change. Mood itself is an emotional state that arises only temporarily, divided into two, namely a good mood (good mood) and bad (bad mood). When someone is in a bad mood, the feelings they feel become more difficult to control emotions, so they can't concentrate when doing something. The purpose of this research is to determine the mood profile of athletes at the Mataram Cup Pencak Silat Championship in 2022. This research is aquantitative descriptive research, which is an analysis of data by describing or describing the data that has been collected as it is without intending to make conclusions that apply to the public. The population in this study were all pencak silat athletes at the 2022 Mataram Cup Championship, totaling 115 people. The sampling technique in this study used a purposive sampling technique. with the criteria for male athletes in the senior category. so that 35 male athletes were obtained. Analysis of the data used is using descriptive percentage analysis method. Categorization uses the Mean and Standard Deviation and to determine the score criteria using the Norm Reference Assessment (PAN). Based on the results of data analysis obtained: From the results of data analysis and assessment of each criterion, the highest average percentage is at the "medium" level criterion, with the percentage of fatigue indicator (KLH) 31.43%, mood of anger (AMR) 31, 43%, ready, energetic, and full of energy (PES) 37.14%, tension (KTG) 34.29%, Self-assessment (PDR) 37.14%, Confused Atmosphere (SSB) 37.14%, and except on Depression indicator (DPS) which is in the low category with a percentage of 40.00%. So it was concluded that the profile (state) of the mood of the pencak silat athletes who took part in the Mataram Cup 2022 championship, with indicators of mood or psychological state on each indicator, namely indicators of fatigue (KLH), mood of anger (AMR), ready, energetic , and full of energy (PES), tension (KTG), Self-assessment (PDR), Confused Atmosphere (SSB, and Depression (DPS), or overall that the profile (state) of the mood of the pencak silat athletes participating in the 2022 Mataram Cup championship is included in the medium category with a percentage of 40% (14 people), low category 28.57% (10 people), high category 22, 86% (8 people), very high category 8.57% (3 people) and no are in the very low category.

Fragrant and Beneficial – The Quest for Recreation of Fragrances from Early Islamic States

Fragrances may appear to be a frivolous topic in the modern world, but well into the early modern period they were firmly located at the intersection of medicine and luxury products. The fragrances created by physicians, pharmacists and perfumers in the early Islamic states influenced the olfactory traditions of Europe and Far East Asia. To study the fragrances of medieval China or the middle Byzantium, one needs first to understand how they were made at the source. Many if not most of fragrance recipes are hidden in medical texts, cookbooks (as art of food preparation was considered a part of medicine), and independent treatises on perfumery. Besides being used for pleasure, as aphrodisiacs, or to satisfy the desire for luxury exotica, pleasant odours were associated with good health, and therefore were believed to have a therapeutic effect. In many cases, we have the direct statement of the author that a given incense or scented powder could cure body weakness, alleviate pain, or help with confusion after a stroke (Hamerneh, 1965). The beneficial effect may have been related more to the placebo effect though it is confirmed that odours can influence the human mind. In my quest for accurate recreation of the beneficial fragrances, I study the processes used to prepare them by the original creators. This includes preparation of compound ingredients like ramik and sukk or distilled fragrant waters. I cross-reference different sources to identify ingredients although the ambiguity of identification cannot be fully eliminated. I attempt to source my ingredients, pending financial and legal limitations, from the same geographical locations referenced in the early medieval period. When the original ingredient is no longer available due to overharvesting or changes in plant biology, I look for a suitable replacement in contemporary sources, as many authors included chapters on substitutions (Levey, 1971). As an independent scholar, my ability to study the effects of these recreated fragrances is limited to the assessment by olfactory approach (like in the experimental archaeology of food). I observe the stability and maturation of fragrances over time, as well as their longevity when applied to skin. A group of my volunteer testers helps with this task. They report if they liked the fragrance undergoing assessment, and how they felt about the odour. I am often surprised how the view of the same scent can range from ‘absolute stench’ to ‘good mood fragrance.’ I also organize presentations of the fragrances to introduce the public to the forgotten scents. I believe it is our duty to celebrate the traditions of all cultures, and this includes the amazing fragrances from the early caliphates, from Al-Andalus to the Near East and beyond.

Serotonin and Pulmonary Hypertension; Sex and Drugs and ROCK and Rho.

Serotonin is often referred to as a "happy hormone" as it maintains good mood, well-being, and happiness. It is involved in communication between nerve cells and plays a role in sleeping and digestion. However, too much serotonin can have pathogenic effects and serotonin synthesis is elevated in pulmonary artery endothelial cells from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PAH is characterized by elevated pulmonary pressures, right ventricular failure, inflammation, and pulmonary vascular remodeling; serotonin has been shown to be associated with these pathologies. The rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of serotonin in the periphery of the body is tryptophan hydroxylase 1 (TPH1). TPH1 expression and serotonin synthesis are elevated in pulmonary artery endothelial cells in patients with PAH. The serotonin synthesized in the pulmonary arterial endothelium can act on the adjacent pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs), adventitial macrophages, and fibroblasts, in a paracrine fashion. In humans, serotonin enters PASMCs cells via the serotonin transporter (SERT) and it can cooperate with the 5-HT1B receptor on the plasma membrane; this activates both contractile and proliferative signaling pathways. The "serotonin hypothesis of pulmonary hypertension" arose when serotonin was associated with PAH induced by diet pills such as fenfluramine, aminorex, and chlorphentermine; these act as indirect serotonergic agonists causing the release of serotonin from platelets and cells through the SERT. Here the role of serotonin in PAH is reviewed. Targeting serotonin synthesis or signaling is a promising novel alternative approach which may lead to novel therapies for PAH. © 2022 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 12: 1-16, 2022.

Durasi Penggunaan Media Sosial dengan Perubahan Mood Mahasiswa Saat Perkuliahan Online

Mood or feeling (mood) is an emotional state that arises temporarily. The mood is divided into two, that is, the good mood and the bad mood. Mood can affect a person's sense of comfort due to feelings about a situation. The use of social media is one of the non-pharmacological actions in the form of distractions to increase a person's comfort. The purpose of this study is to analyze the duration of the use of social availability with changes in the 20000 online lectures, there are students in the 34th increase of STIKES Adi Husada, totaling 31 people with sampling technique used simple random sampling. The study design was non-experimental correlational with cross-sectional, using questionnaires to measure the duration of social media use and mood. The results of the Chi-square test showed a p-value (0.000) < 0.05, which means that there is a relationship between the duration of social media use and mood changes. The more often you access social media al, the more positive the mood that arises. This is because social media can provide a variety of interesting entertainment features, chat, and the latest information, and make it easier to get or get to know new friends in cyberspace so that friendships are wider. Social media is an alternative to improving mood in adolescents, especially college students, but can also have a negative impact, therefore further research is needed by using other variables in the sample more.
 Keywords : Social Media, Duration of Use, Mood.