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mood congruent
mood congruent Mood congruent describes a match between a person’s current mood and the emotional information they attend to, such as sadness being linked with greater attention to sad faces.
Mood congruent describes a match between a person’s current mood and the emotional information they attend to, such as sadness being linked with greater attention to sad faces. In this context, it refers to a mood-specific bias toward material with the same emotional tone as the mood.