Being helpful helps to achieve these goals and can even offset other negative moods.

Jeffrey leaned forward to dispel the beginnings of a negative mood about what the future might bring.

These negative moods may lead to problems in social relationships.

Thus negative mood increases helpfulness because helping others can reduce one's own bad feelings.

And the analysts said there is little to suggest the market's extremely negative mood will improve soon.

They can determine if a person has more positive or negative moods.

In a classic experiment, subjects had their negative mood induced and were given an opportunity to help others.

They just fell within the general category of negative mood (Cialdini et al., 1976).

Venting drawings did improve negative mood more than no drawing activity.

Bob pulled himself out of his negative mood and said, "Sorry.