Some Relations of Meteorological Variables to Day-to-Day Fluctuations in Subjective Feeling

Findikyan, Nurhan; Sells, S. B.

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“…The factor analyses were most helpful not only in reducing the size of the original correlation matrices, but also in identifying the dominant, mutually independent modes of weather variation. These composites of very specific features are more meaningful than any of those features in isolation, and are what Findikyan and Sells (1964) stated were missing in their mood-weather study.…”

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The effect of weather on mood, productivity, and frequency of emotional crisis in a temperate continental climate

Barnston

1988

Int J Biometeorol

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A group of 62 mostly university student subjects kept structured diaries of their feelings and their productivity for six weeks in Illinois in early autumn. During the same period, daily frequency of telephone calls to a crisis intervention service in the same community was monitored, and complete daily weather data for the vicinity were provided by a local meteorological research facility. Major findings are as follows. The weather appears to influence mood and productivity, but only to a small extent compared with the aggregate of all other controlling factors. Males show a relatively stronger effect than females. Psychologically troubled people generally appear to be more affected by weather than university students. The students and the crisis intervention service clients with "mild" problems tend to be stressed more when the weather is unstable, cloudy, warm and humid, and least stressed during sunny, dry, cool weather with rising barometric pressure. The crisis service clients with "severe" problems react oppositely to these two weather types. The meaning of these and other results and the strengths and weaknesses of this study's design are discussed.

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The effect of weather on mood, productivity, and frequency of emotional crisis in a temperate continental climate

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1988

Int J Biometeorol

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The effect of weather and its changes on emotional state – individual characteristics that make us vulnerable

Spasova

2012

Adv. Sci. Res.

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Abstract. Given the proven effects of weather on the human organism, an attempt to examine its effects on a psychological and emotional level has been made. Emotions affect the bio tone, working ability, and concentration; hence their significance in various domains of economic life such as health care, education, transportation, and tourism.The present pilot study was conducted in Sofia, Bulgaria over a period of eight months, using five psychological methods: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Test for Self-assessment of the emotional state, Test for evaluation of moods and Test "Self-confidence-Activity-Mood". The FiodorovChubukov's complex-climatic method was used to characterize meteorological conditions in order to include a maximal number of meteorological elements in the analysis. Sixteen weather types are defined depending on the meteorological elements values according to this method. Abrupt weather changes from one day to another, defined by the same method, were also considered.The results obtained by t-test showed that the different categories of weather led to changes in the emotional status, which indicates a character either positive or negative for the organism. The abrupt weather changes, according to expectations, have negative effects on human emotions -but only when a transition to the cloudy weather or weather type, classified as "unfavorable", has been realized. The relationship between weather and human emotions is rather complicated since it depends on individual characteristics of people. One of these individual psychological characteristics, marked by the dimension "neuroticism", has a strong effect on emotional reactions in different weather conditions. Emotionally stable individuals are more "resistant" to the weather influence on their emotions, while those who are emotionally unstable have a stronger dependence on the impacts of weather.

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Do Weather Parameters That Affect Our Mood Also Affect Stock Market Data?

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2022

19 Mayıs Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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While the general acceptance in the 1970s was that investors acted rationally, the fact that investment decisions could not be explained only with a rational approach began to come to the fore in the early 1980s. Studies conducted in this context have diversified to examine the internal and external factors on the decision-making processes of individuals on investment. Opinions on investor behavior, which are fed by social sciences such as psychology, marketing, and sociology, have revealed that many factors are effective in the decision-making process. In this context, one of the most weighted elements in the decision-making literature is emotions. Emotions, which are directly related to different environmental conditions, have shown that they are also effective in investor decisions this way. This research was conducted to examine the effect of weather conditions on investment decisions. Data on multidimensional investment elements have been collected over a wide period and their relationships with different weather conditions have been examined. As a result, it has been concluded that the most important parameters of the investments, the transaction volume, and the transaction amount, are related to the pressure, temperature, and humidity of the weather. Similarly, transaction returns were also found to be related to air temperature.

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Some Relations of Meteorological Variables to Day-to-Day Fluctuations in Subjective Feeling

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The effect of weather on mood, productivity, and frequency of emotional crisis in a temperate continental climate

The effect of weather on mood, productivity, and frequency of emotional crisis in a temperate continental climate

The effect of weather and its changes on emotional state – individual characteristics that make us vulnerable

Do Weather Parameters That Affect Our Mood Also Affect Stock Market Data?

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