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Mood
A diffuse affective state that typically lasts longer than an emotion, is less intense and is not clearly directed at a specific object or event. Moods colour perception and judgement and can persist after the circumstances that contributed to them have passed. The boundary between mood and emotion is drawn differently by different authors, and in everyday language the words overlap. Why a restorative experience can leave the underlying difficulty unchanged: negative reinforcement, experiential avoidance, acute mood effects of exercise, rumination and the peak-end rule.Where the site uses it