Color and Mood

Zora Hurston’s essay “How It feels to Be Colored Me” emphasizes colored imagery to condemn racial pity. Colors infiltrate her emotions and descriptions as she emphasizes that she is not just one color but a part of all America. Through her imagery, she enables the reader to feel as she did as a child living in an all-black town with the rest of the world passing by. In paragraph eleven, Hurston explains very well that the same sounds that assaulted Hurston’s feelings assaulted mine as well. After Hurston’s description of her reaction to the jazz music, the white man’s statement, “Good music they have here,” (243) serves to complement the imagery. Another good example of her imagery is when she says “My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I

I tended to show more productive experiences in the morning or early afternoon. I was least productive late at night. I had the least amount of pleasurable experiences at work, in class and while working on homework. I had the most amount of pleasurable experiences spending time with others and relaxing. Breakfast and mornings tended to be more pleasurable. I found more pleasure in breakfast than other meals. I felt the most drained waiting for things to start, such as waiting for class or waiting for the bus. Additionally, I felt more drained coming home from work at night. I felt more restored when spending time with people and after organizing my schedule in the afternoons. I felt the

and Mary Carskadon, Ph.D. surveyed more than 3,000 high school students. They found that those who reported poor grades (C, D or F) reported getting 25 fewer minutes of sleep than the students who reported getting A’s and B’s. The poor performers also went to bed approximately 40 minutes later than the students who reported getting good grades. A study from the University of Minnesota confirmed that later school start times can have a positive effect on academic performance. Investigators studied two school districts that changed their start times to 8:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m. When compared with students attending schools with earlier start times, the students reported getting higher grades. They also had fewer depressive feelings, got more sleep on school nights and had less daytime

Studies have shown that people do most of their best thinking in the late morning to the late afternoon. This is true to people that go to work and for people that go to school. A British boarding school decided to start school at 10 in the morning to study the kids and their grades. The school saw an average improvement in

For starters, sleep loss may result in irritability, impatience, inability to concentrate, and moodiness. (Source H). Have you ever woken up in the morning and been extremely grumpy? This is most likely caused by the lack of sleep you are getting. Not sleeping long enough causes the body to be tired in the mornings and that causes us to be in a grumpy mood. Furthermore, new evidence shows that sleep is essential to helping maintain mood, memory, and cognitive performance. (Source A) With scientific evidence proving that sleep will help maintain mood, this is a very good reason for schools to start later in the morning. The more sleep students get, the better their moods will be in the mornings. Thus, sleep deprivation could be one of the causes for mood swings in

His method of testing involved altering the mood of participants with a “test” of verbal abilities, and a subsequent attribution task to measure how affect influenced their perceptions. To alter participants’ moods, a sentence-completion test was used. The average completion score was at nineteen sentences, while the minimum completed by all was fourteen sentences. The “happy” group was told that answering seven to thirteen correctly was “average” and thirteen or higher constituted an “above average” score. The “sad” group was told that “average” was twenty-seven to thirty correct answers, meaning that they were below average. The control group was thanked and told that their answers would help refine the test and were dismissed.

For the Emotions Daily journal experiment, I made notes to record how I am feeling when I wake up. When I wake up early in the morning I am in a bad mood. I’m just not a morning person at all. If I wake up in the afternoon I feel more refreshed and less moody. When I wake up in the evening I feel very good and am I feel like the rest of the day is going to be good. In this experiment I realized that I cannot control my emotions too well. If I wake up not feeling good then, I have a strong feeling it’s just not going to be a good day at all. However, when I wake up feeling rejuvenated I feel today is going to be a good day. Some things that I learned in emotional processing is that I realize my feelings are important to me. I need to acknowledge my emotions more and take the time out to understand how and why I feel like this. I tend to let my emotions come out freely. I need to learn how to control my emotions more and express them better. Some people notice that my emotions get the best of me. If I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, most likely it is definitely going to be a bad day. If I have a bad day, then I probably will say something mean to someone else and ruin their day as well. I’m going to start working on my emotional expression, and display my feelings better. Maybe if I try to wake up with a smile more often I’m pretty sure that my emotions will start improving.

Have you ever noticed that sadness makes the world seem just a little more gray and dull? Well, it turns out that there may be some scientific evidence to back up that feeling. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, seems to suggest that sadness actually does change color perception in some people.

Women with strong masculine traits often receive similar criticism; women are expected to behave differently than men. One study found that in professional business environments women were more likely to disclose chronic illness and find social support, while men were expected to maintain composure and not stray from the task at hand (Munir, Price, Haslam, Leka, & Griffiths, 2006). To further highlight this difference between genders on the disclosure of personal information, women who score high in feminine traits are more likely to become emotionally invested and disclose personal information about themselves in conversations with acquaintances (Shaffer, Pegalis, & Cornell, 2001).

In order for the researchers to keep track of the participants’ emotional states, the participants were instructed to rate their mood at the beginning, during the middle, and at the end of the experiment by using self-reports. Additionally, the participants gave a thorough analysis of their

The emotional differences of men and women vary in temperaments of emotion which indicates a disconnection in communication, moral motivation, stereotypes, and chemical reactions in the brain.

People's Moods can be efected in many ways.The first source states that "If someone is angry, playing soothing sounds will appeal to there sense of hearing."And it's true.One time I got mad at my friend for liying to me and I was furius so I pulled up my phone and listend to some peacefull music and five minuits later I was calm and me and my friend made up and got along fine after that.It was amazing how that worked though.

Many people have tried to study the psychological differences between genders and found that there are very few. One such study, conducted by Janet Shibley Hyde, used meta-analysis to compare men’s and women’s reactions to certain social situations. Using the equation difference is equal to the mean score for males minus the mean score for women divided by the within-gender standard deviation, Shibley Hyde found that most differences were close to zero, difference was equal to or less than .1, and very few were large dissimilarities, where difference was above .66 (Shibley Hyde). She also found that differences varied according to social context.

Personality is a ‘dynamic organisation, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that crate the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings’ (Allport, 1961, p.11). Various terms were used to define personality across the description of individual differences from various perspectives (Maltby, Day & Macaskill, 2007, pp. 9). Personality psychology is spread wide out therefore there are significant researches done throughout to understand personality, one of the research in describing and explaining gender differences in personality. Although, this topic may seem evolved, it was not until the 1970’s when significant studies were piloted to learn gender differences in personality. To understand the emphasis and analysis of gender differences in personality, this essay will aim to approach theories and research evidence to confer the gender differences in personality. It will cover the aetiology of where these differences originated, followed by biological perspective to determine the gender of one self (male or female). Also, dig further into how personality theory of traits can explain the differences with evidence. However, firstly a brief account of male and female differences will be explained below.

The main idea of Affective Events Theory is the affective experience such as moods and emotions as crucial link in shaping attitudes and behaviours (Rosen, Harris & Kacmar, 2009). Based on Greenberg (2011), positive mood leads to positive memory