Will the weather affect the mood?

Schwartz & Clore (1983) found that people's mood and satisfaction with life are much higher when asked in sunny days than when asked in rainy days. However, when researchers pretend to call from other places, they first ask about the weather and then ask about their life satisfaction. People who are aware of the relationship between weather and mood no longer reduce their satisfaction with life. However, people still express more satisfaction with life on sunny days. By the way, there is also "seasonal affective disorder" (SAD for short). In the long winter without sunshine in high latitudes, people are more likely to feel depressed, and the long rainy season can also lead to sadness. Emotional fluctuation is closely related to insufficient sunshine. Weather not only affects mood, but also affects decision-making and attitude through mood, even war, conflict and finance. Feeling conveys information. When we encounter negative events, we will feel depressed, and when we encounter positive events, we will feel high. Feeling as information theory holds that people can't correctly and clearly understand the source of their emotions, so they will mistake their emotions for other events as clues to understand the current situation. A bad mood implies that the situation is not good, and a good mood implies that everything is fine, so don't worry. Sinclair et al. (1994) found that it is easier to accept information transmission and product promotion in sunny days than in rainy days. On rainy days, people's depression will remind themselves of environmental problems, and they are more inclined to use systematic thinking and carefully analyze arguments. On sunny days, people's good mood can easily make them have the illusion that everything is fine, use enlightening thinking and ignore details. Therefore, in order to change people's behavior and attitude, the strength of argument in rainy days is much greater than that in sunny days. The far-reaching influence appeared in Hirshleifer et al. (20 13). They studied whether there is sunshine every day in major stock exchange cities in 26 countries, and the relationship between sunshine and stock returns on that day. The results show that if the city is sunny that day, the rate of return on that day is more likely to go up. The author speculates that a good mood on a sunny day makes investors more optimistic about the future economy. In addition, Hsiang et al. (20 13) found that aggression may be related to climate. With the increase of temperature, the probability of group conflict increases 14%, and interpersonal violence increases by 4%. In the rainy season, violence and conflict are more likely to occur.