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 * Is it possible that the mood can change our Personality?**

In life, at one time or the other, we all faced this phenomenon called "mood"; sometimes it can be good and can be bad depending on the environment we are. But the question: "is it possible that the mood can change our Personality? Two scientists Jan Querengässer and [|Sebastian Schindler] twice measured the personality of 98 participants (average age 22; 67 per cent female), with a month between each assessment. Before one of the assessments, the participants either watched a ten-minute video designed to make them feel sad, or to make them feel happy. The sad clip was from the film Philadelphia and Barber's [|Adagio for Strings] was also added into the mix. The happy video showed families reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall, together with Mozart's [|Eine klieine Nachtmusik] . Before their other personality assessment, the participants watched a neutral video about people with extreme skills. The research had concluded that p articipants scored higher on neuroticism & lower on extraversion when they were sad which is a complement of previous research that had intuited that someone personality traits are associated with emotions.

Querengässer, J., & Schindler, S. (2014). Sad but true? - How induced emotional states differentially bias self-rated Big Five personality traits // BMC Psychology, 2 // (1) DOI: [|10.1186/2050-7283-2-14]

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