The effect of one's emotional state in regard to impression on others.

Abstract

  This experiment was conducted to investigate effect of one’s emotional state in regard to impression on others. After twenty college students’ feelings were manipulated by watching movies (positive and negative), they evaluated their impressions of the experimenters by using questionnaire, absent the experimenters. The results showed that the participants with positive feeling evaluated the experimenters positively, and those with negative feelings evaluated negatively. These results were discussed by using the concept of mood congruent effect.