Mood congruence

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

In psychiatry, mood congruence is the congruence between feeling, or the emotion that a person is experiencing, and affect display, or the manner in which that emotion is “presenting”, or being expressed.

Examples:

• Congruent mood – smiling while feeling happy.
• Non-congruent mood – smiling while feeling anxious.
• Inappropriate affect – laughing while describing a loved one’s funeral, for instance.

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