Though I suspect that both the weather and the book contributed to your negative mood, if I had to guess I'd vote for the book as having the larger impact.

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Based on employee logs, the connection between mood and negative events is about five times stronger than the connection between mood and positive events.

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Jenkins feels that much of the criticism is personal, but stressed that despite the recent negative reports the mood in the camp is fine.

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The earnings reports-and more importantly, the increasingly negative corporate outlook-has turned the mood on the Street quite negative.

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In Britain and Poland, the voters' mood currently points to a negative vote.

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Sessions notes that the mood of the country had both positive and negative reverberations.

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