ArticleNature human behaviour2023
A highly replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Attentional lapses and mind wandering during the maintenance of visual attention over varying durations.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Nonparametric Causal Inference for Optogenetics: Sequential Excursion Effects for Dynamic Regimes.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2026Article
- Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Rewards transiently and automatically enhance sustained attention.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and in-Scanner Motion.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Emotions and individual differences shape human foraging under threat.Nature. Mental health · 2025Article
- Affective integration in experience, judgment, and decision-making.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization.Nature neuroscience · 2024Review
- Antecedents of mind wandering states in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Does our mood change as time passes? This question is central to behavioural and affective science, yet it remains largely unexamined. To investigate, we intermixed subjective momentary mood ratings into repetitive psychology paradigms. Here we demonstrate that task and rest periods lowered participants' mood, an effect we call 'Mood Drift Over Time'. This finding was replicated in 19 cohorts totalling 28,482 adult and adolescent participants. The drift was relatively large (-13.8% after 7.3 min of rest, Cohen's d = 0.574) and was consistent across cohorts. Behaviour was also impacted: participants were less likely to gamble in a task that followed a rest period. Importantly, the drift slope was inversely related to reward sensitivity. We show that accounting for time using a linear term significantly improves the fit of a computational model of mood. Our work provides conceptual and methodological reasons for researchers to account for time's effects when studying mood and behaviour.
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