The study was conducted to determine if positive mood enables children to form positive judgments rather than negative judgments. The study was based on a two-randomized group design Experimental group was induced in a positive mood and the control group was manipulated with a neutral mood. Neutral mood was also induced to a group of participants to provide a control condition for aid in interpretation of the results.
The researcher induced mood through film showing. This method appeared to be the most suitable mood-manipulation technique in the present circumstances. With children, In particular as subjects, videotaped films represent a most suitable mood-manipulation as completed, the subjects were shown pictures of different persons. These persons served as stimulus characters. Each of the stimulus characters was rated on a 10-centimeter scale as being more closely related to one or he other pair of opposite traits. Thus, participants were asked to write a small vertical line on the 10-centimeter scale to indicate their rating.
Results did not show enough evidence for the researcher to conclude that a significant difference in impression-formation judgment will come differently from positive mood and neutral mood both have positive judgments rather than negative judgments. Therefore the researcher concludes that transient mood has no pronounced effect on impression-formation judgment on this study.