Mood Congruency and incongruency effects on sentence writing

This study investigated the influence of positive and negative moods on sen tence writing. Short animated video clips, inducing either a positive or ne gative mood, were shown to 60 female undergraduates. Then, they wrote five sentences under one of two conditions: the sentences were to begin with "I" or "M" (a third person) as the subject. Main results were as follows: with the first person pronoun as the subject, the negative mood group showed a mood-congruency effect for the first sentence, and a mood-incongruency effe ct for the second to fifth sentence, with "M" as the sentence subject, the negative mood group showed a mood-incongruency effect for all the five sent ences. The positive mood group showed a mood-congruency effect for all the sentences, regardless of "I" or "M" condition. Furthermore, under "I" condi tion, the students in the negative mood group reported their desire to chan ge their mood. It is concluded that mood-incongruency effect on writing dep ended on the subject of the sentence.