Academic | Accepting |
Adventurous | Aggressive |
Aloof | Altruistic |
Amazed | Amenable |
Angry | Animated |
Annoyed | Anticipatory |
Anxious | Apathetic |
Arrogant | Artistic |
Assertive | Authoritarian |
Awkward | Bewildered |
Biased | Bitter |
Blase | Blissful |
Bored | Brave |
Broken | Calculating |
Callous | Calm |
Careful | Cavalier |
Clumsy | Coherent |
Cold | Comfortable |
Compassionate | Competent |
Complacent | Composed |
Conceited | Confident |
Conformist | Confrontational |
Confused | Constructive |
Contemplative | Contemptuous |
Content | Cool |
Cooperative | Courteous |
Crafty | Creative |
Cruel | Crushed |
Curious | Cynical |
Daring | Dark |
Day-dreaming | Dazed |
Decisive | Defeated |
Defensive | Dejected |
Delusional | Denial |
Despondent | Destructive |
Difficult | Disappointed |
Disciplined | Disdainful |
Disgruntled | Disheartened |
Disjointed | Disordered |
Disoriented | Dispassionate |
Distracted | Dizzy |
Dull | Earnest |
Elegant | Embarrassed |
Emotional | Empathetic |
Energetic | Engaged |
Entertained | Evocative |
Excited | Exhausted |
Fair | Fanatical |
Fascinated | Fearful |
Feeble | Fierce |
Flexible | Focused |
Foolish | Forgiving |
Fragile | Frantic |
Free | Frigid |
Fussy | Generous |
Gloomy | Graceless |
Greedy | Grounded |
Happy | Hateful |
Haughty | Honest |
Hopeful | Hubris |
Humble | Humorless |
Humorous | Idealistic |
Imaginative | Impartial |
Impatient | Inattentive |
Inconsiderate | Indestructible |
Indifferent | Inflexible |
Inhibited | Inspired |
Intense | Intolerant |
Intrigued | Introspective |
Irrational | Irresponsible |
Jaded | Jealous |
Judgement | Keen |
Lazy | Liberated |
Light-headed | Lighthearted |
Lively | Logical |
Lonely | Loving |
Manipulative | Materialistic |
Maternal | Mean |
Meditative | Melancholy |
Methodical | Miserly |
Modest | Mournful |
Naive | Narcissistic |
Naturalistic | Negative |
Neglectful | Nonsensical |
Nostalgic | Obedient |
Open-minded | Optimistic |
Outgoing | Overthinking |
Passionate | Passive |
Paternal | Patient |
Patronizing | Peaceful |
Pedantic | Perfectionist |
Pessimistic | Petty |
Playful | Pompous |
Positive | Practical |
Pragmatic | Preachy |
Productive | Professional |
Protective | Proud |
Prudish | Quirky |
Rational | Realistic |
Reasonable | Receptive |
Reflective | Regretful |
Responsible | Romantic |
Sad | Sarcastic |
Sardonic | Schadenfreude |
Scheming | Self-absorbed |
Selfish | Selfless |
Sensible | Sentimental |
Serene | Serious |
Servile | Shrewd |
Shy | Silly |
Skeptical | Smug |
Snobbish | Sober |
Social | Solemn |
Spirited | Spontaneous |
Stable | Static |
Strange | Stubborn |
Stunned | Supercilious |
Supportive | Suspicious |
Sympathetic | Systematic |
Tedious | Tenuous |
Timid | Tired |
Tolerant | Tricky |
Troubled | Trusting |
Unaffected | Unassuming |
Unbreakable | Uncaring |
Uncomfortable | Uncommunicative |
Unconventional | Understanding |
Unhinged | Uninhibited |
Uninspired | Unproductive |
Unrealistic | Unruffled |
Unstable | Untroubled |
Vigilant | Warm |
Weak | Willing |
Withdrawn | Witty |
Wonder | Worried |
Mood
A mood is a sustained emotional state that influences all thoughts and feelings for a period of time. These give humans great behavioral depth as we essentially switch gears using moods.
Mental Context
Foundational elements of a person's mind including relatively stable things such as memories and things that can change such as attitudes. For example, your self-perception including elements such as how you feel about your identity may influence how you react to a particular social situation.
Attention
How you're focusing your mind at a moment in time. For example, not listening in a meeting but monitoring for mention of a topic of importance to you.
Modes of Thinking
Different approaches to thinking that people apply based on the situation or their personality. For example, an individual who is in a playful mode of thinking in a social situation or a critical mode of thinking in a debate.
Mindset
An individual's basic outlook on things. Mindset can be an element of your personality but also changes based on the situation. For example, becoming pessimistic in a meeting because you view a proposed strategy as deeply flawed.
Physical Factors
Physical realities that influence your frame of mind such as sleepiness, energy level and distractions such as noise.
Motivation
The level and direction of your cognitive energy.
Summary
Frame of mind is the set of cognitive factors that shape your thinking, emotions and behavior at at point in time that may span seconds, minutes or hours. People are quite dynamic and elements of your frame of mind change over time.
