Moods Rule All

The other day me and a team-mate/ friend were discussing something about how to get permission from our D for some changes we need to get done in some of our SOPs.....and the last sentence we made was.."well, it all depends on his mood ultimately"....so how many important things do actually depend on important people's mood.....

You write a good paper or bad, you still pray the examiner's mood is good enough to get you decent marks.

A creative person won't be able to produce unless he/she is in the mood.

You'll have a bad lecture if the professor is in a bad mood.

If you need permission to do something important, well..it depends on the person's mood from whom you want to take the permission.

However, there can be a flip-side to this argument. In social psychology we learn Kelly's theory of Attribution wherein, if the behaviour of a person is uncharacteristic of him and is distinctive and inconsistent, it is attributed to temporary causes such as the person's mood. And that could be the reason for everything being linked to a person's moods.

So do moods come first or do behaviours come first?