How Moods Are Affected By The Sun
Jared Sousa
1/20/96
Descriptive Research
Thesis: The amount of sun people receive affects their mood.
A young woman lies asleep on a cold, overcast winter morning. At 4 A.M., a
faint incandescence radiates from a light bulb placed near her bed. The light
gradually gains intensity and covers until 6 A.M., when the woman awakes. She
had just experienced a simulated dawn of a new day. After being treated with
this for several days, the woman's annual winter depression slowly goes away.
Does this mean that the less sun you get the worse you feel, or perhaps the
more you get the better your mood? It is very possible that you may feel this
way as millions of people worldwide have experienced it first-hand. This
phenomena is still sort of a mystery as many researchers don't completely
understand why this happens. "It may be that certain individuals have inherited
vulnerability that causes them to develop depression in the absence of......
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