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Mood, similar to emotion, is a state of affect. Mood doesnât necessarily have to have a specific stimuli or cause but rather it is as a result of a more diffused and unfocused occurrence. Emotion, however, has a clear cause. Affect also describes the state of feeling or experience of emotion.
It is often preceded by the words a, an, any, the, take, into, and no. (These words may be separated from effect by an adjective.) Affect is almost always a verb. It means to influence and to produce a change such as Alcohol drastically affects decision making.