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Wessman presents a summary of the literature on moods and discusses in detail much of the work that he and his colleagues have been doing in this area for more than a decade. Wessman draws no sharp distinctions between the qualitative characteristics of mood and emotion. In some respects, mood can be considered an emotion of extended duration. Perhaps because of this temporal characteristic, people are often less aware of the causes of mood than they are of a more specific, intense, and temporally restricted emotion experience. Wessman talks about separate and distinct emotions and moods and sees these phenomena as important motivational conditions.
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Wessman, A.E. (1979). Moods: Their Personal Dynamics and Significance. In: Izard, C.E. (eds) Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2892-6_4
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