Latest Mood Stories

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Using five million books digitized by Google in recent years as a database, the research team looked at how often words that carry emotional content, or 'mood words,’ were used throughout the 20th Century. Previous work by one of the researchers, Vasileios Lampos from the University of Bristol in the UK, looked at the word content of Twitter messages in six mood categories: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise....

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Reaching for that so-called comfort food when you’re feeling bad about yourself might not be the best idea after all, according to new research presented Friday at the at the American Psychosomatic Society conference in Miami. As part of the study, experts from Penn State University studied the eating habits of 131 college-age women who had high levels of unhealthy eating habits and concerns about their body shape and...

LONDON, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As researching a bathroom refurbishment can be time consuming and confusing due to wealth of products available and the technical nature of the project, leading bathroom retailer C.P. Hart has launched an innovative online tool to assist the homeowner during this process. Instead of collating images and tear sheets, customers can use C.P Hart's time-saving mood board to source products and experiment with different styles and...

Intuitive tool creates a shared language for youth to talk about how they feel with those who support them TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2013 /CNW/ - mindyourmood, a new app for Android and Apple mobile devices, launched today at The Sandbox Project Conference.  Developed by the award winning mental health and youth engagement initiative mindyourmind for the AstraZeneca Young Health Program, the mood tracking app provides young people with an intuitive platform to quickly record how they...

ATLANTA, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pollsters spent tens of millions of dollars trying to predict who would win the 2012 presidential election. That's a lot of money in any economy. Suppose with just a few clicks of the calculator, with no special knowledge and without asking a single person how they planned to vote, you could have predicted the outcome of the 2012 election. A widely reported statistical study, posted last January on the Social Science Research Network, showed how...

ATLANTA, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heading into Tuesday, most pundits predicted that the presidential election was going to be painfully close. Many used terms such as "razor-thin," "among the closest in our nation's history" and "it's going to be a late night--maybe several nights--before we have a victor." But one study released in January had a different view. The study has received extensive press coverage and is among the most-downloaded papers at the popular research site...

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- P.L. Thomas & Co. Inc. (Morristown, NJ) and HG&H Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd. (Bryanston, South Africa) announced today that they will conduct a full-scale launch of Zembrin® Sceletium tortuosum extract at Supply Side West, 3-5 November in Las Vegas. Over the last two years, the companies have been engaged in a series of successful clinical and safety studies, have completed the NDI notification process, and will now make the...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers presented new evidence about mood-enhancing foods at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday. Scientists said they found more than 1,700 substances that make up flavors of common foods, including some flavors deriving from natural ingredients, that could potentially resemble a prescription mood stabilizer. “Molecules in chocolate, a variety of...

Dr. Gary McClain today released a new article, “Break out of that bad mood,” for individuals facing chronic medical conditions. He discussed the risk to patients when they don’t attempt to understand what’s causing their bad mood and attempt to resolve it, along with guidelines for coping with bad moods. New York, NY (PRWEB) July 11, 2012 Dr. Gary McClain today released a new article, “Break out of that bad mood,” for individuals facing chronic medical conditions. A...

When they're in a positive mood, people tend to choose products that match their mood and their level of emotional arousal, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But crabby, low-energy people will seek products to reverse those states of mind. "We examine how consumers' choices are affected by the interplay between their level of arousal (i.e., the intensity of a consumer's mood state) and the valence (the direction of their mood state—whether consumers are in a...