Mood influences cognition and cognition influences mood in a bidirectional relationship. Feelings shape thoughts and thoughts shape feelings. Specifically: - A person's current mood impacts what information they notice and remember, with positive moods enhancing creativity and negative moods making people and ideas seem gloomier. - Memory is also mood-dependent, with information learned in a positive (negative) mood more easily recalled when the person is in a positive (negative) mood. - Cognition also influences affect, as explained by the two-factor theory of emotion - physiological arousal is labeled as an emotion based on cognitive cues from the external environment. - Studies in social neuroscience provide evidence of this bidirectional relationship between cognition in