Evgeniia Vdovichenko
Mood-Congruent Memory Bias specification of Cognitive Bias Ontology
Mood-congruent memory bias is a cognitive bias that affects how we recall past events. This bias occurs when our current mood influences the way we remember information, leading us to recall memories that are consistent with our current mood more easily than those that are not. For instance, if you're feeling happy, you're more likely to remember positive events, while if you're feeling sad, you're more likely to recall negative or sad events. This bias can impact both the recall of personal memories and the interpretation of events, potentially reinforcing our current mood by selectively recalling mood-consistent memories.
Mood-Congruent Memory module of the Cognitive Bias Ontology
On a quiet morning, Lisa, overwhelmed by anxiety, realizes her medical procedure is just a day away. With each tick of the clock, her heart races as memories of past health scares flood her mind. Sitting in her dimly lit room, she feels the weight of her worries growing, each thought darker than the last. Hesitantly, she reaches for her medical reports, her hands trembling as she reads through them. The clinical language and cold facts do little to comfort her; instead, they bring back vivid memories of times when her health faltered, increasing her dread for the upcoming procedure. Attempting to distract herself, Lisa tries to focus on positive outcomes, but the anxiety has made her recall only the negative experiences. She remembers the long recovery after her last surgery, the discomfort of treatments, and the isolation of hospital stays. These worrying memories make her current fear even more intense, casting a shadow over her ability to stay optimistic. As the day progresses, Lisa's room feels colder, and the silence louder. She knows she should reach out to someone—perhaps a friend or a counselor—but the anxiety makes it hard to find the words or the will. Instead, she curls up on her sofa, wrapped in a blanket, trying to find a semblance of peace in old books and movies that once brought her joy. Finally, as night falls, Lisa decides to write down her fears in her journal, hoping to externalize some of the anxiety. With each word, she feels a slight release but knows the true test will come in the morning, at the hospital. She falls asleep with a mix of dread and a faint hope that maybe, just as stories can have unexpected positive turns, her procedure might go better than her anxious mind anticipates.
hasPrecondition
Because an activity may engage other participants than the one performing it, engagements are in general considered individual rather than collective, therefore each participants has their own engagement and only some of them will be conscious and/or documented.
isEngagedIn
hasParticipant
isParticipantIn
hasConsequence
isConsequenceOf
Defines the state of an object.
hasState
isStateOf
Describes the relationship between a Cognitive Bias and an Individual on the base of influence.
affectedBy
Inverse of AffectedBy.
affects
This property allows sub-typing of entities – a form of specialization – through the use of a terminological hierarchy, or thesaurus.
hasEmotionalType
hasType
Represents an entity that experiences the bias.
BiasedAgent
Represents the overarching concept of cognitive biases.
CognitiveBias
MoodCongruentMemory
The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection). Has type which is a predefined sting. In our case: positive, negative or other predefined values.
EmotionalState
Models any possible event in general on the abstract level.
Event
Denotes a human being and express that we are talking about human cognitive biases.
People
Captures the result of remembering activity.
RememberingExperience
The overwhelming feeling that Lisa experiences as she anticipates her medical procedure.
Anxiety
Lisa's memories about her previous medical issues and staying in the hospital.
HospitalMemories
Lisa's expirience in hospitals
HospitalStaying
Lisa is an individual expiriencing the bias.
Lisa
The situation of expiriencing the Mood-Congruent Memory
Mood-CongruentMemoryInstance