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This is my eighth blogpost. I don't know how. I don't remember skipping that many weeks, but here we go.

Rose colored glasses let you see more. That is, people actually notice more when they are in a good mood than when they are in a bad mood. A recent study performed at the University of Toronto enforces these findings. Subjects were shown a series of images which are supposed to entice either a good, bad, or neutral mood. They were then shown an image and asked to remember one specific detail about that image, the gender of some person. People who were supposed to be in a bad mood tended to remember less about the other details of the picture than people who were supposed to be in a good mood.

This may seem good because then people in good moods can take in more of life, but this may not be good. It could actually distract people in good moods from whatever task they should be doing, like driving. So being in a bad mood might actually serve some purpose sometimes.

Reading this article, I thought this is actually kind of true; thinking specifically of when I'm driving. I'm normally pretty annoyed whenever I drive for the wide variety of reasons that I'm sure everyone else gets mad at driving for also. Normally I'm also very focused when driving, not aware of what I'm passing exactly but very aware of the road and drivers immediately ahead, beside, and behind me. I guess that's not a good study though because I don't have a good mood driving experience to compare it to.

article can be found here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090603103807.htm

- Osvaldo Enriquez