Programmer's mood and their performance

Moods might influence the quality and performance of programmers while programming. It is evident from literature that positive and negative moods influence divergent thinking, quantity/quality of ideas and creative problem solving (Vosburg, 1998). The hypothesis of this study is that the programmers' performance and the quality of their work could be affected by their moods when they develop or test an application. We will briefly discuss our experiment to test this hypothesis. We will also discuss a test carried on to validate movies. These movies then will be used in the experiment to induct moods.