Documentary Affects the Consistency of Rating General Well-Being and Optimis: The Impact of the Situation on General Psychological Measures

General psychological measures should be stable over time. In this class research we demonstrate that showing a historical documentary changes the self-evaluation of well-being an optimism, which should be stable over time (i.e. at least within an hour, or even more). The question raised by the study is to what extent an event or events, preceding the completion of trait or general measures, affect the responses on presumed stable (over time) psychological variables?