Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering

The Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL) and PEBL Test Battery

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The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE): Psychometric Properties and Normative Data in a Large Chinese Sample

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Moods

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Induction of Depressed Mood Disrupts Emotion Regulation Neurocircuitry and Enhances Pain Unpleasantness

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Links between the personalities, views and attitudes of software engineers

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Do moods affect programmers’ debug performance?

(2010) Iftikhar Ahmed Khan et al.   Cognition Technology & Work

A meta-analysis of 25 years of mood-creativity research: Hedonic tone, activation, or regulatory focus?

(2008) Matthijs Baas et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN