Attitudes and emotions, while tied together are separate entities. Attitudes are the longer-term general perception that you have over the world and what you perceive happening in it. Emotions are much more specific and much more fleeting. They can certainly feed off each other, a good attitude can foster good emotions from the same events. Along the same lines, opposite emotions can alter mood if kept around too long, but the contradiction usually makes them last a much shorter time. For instance, someone in a good mood would be effected less by a biting remark from a passerby than someone already in a poor mood. They both may have the same emotional reaction, but the person in a good mood would likely shrug it much faster than the person in a bad mood.

Personality and values are another area that effect human behavior. Personality is seen as a semi-permanent set of behaviors associated with a particular person and how they interact with the world and other people in it. The Type A vs. Type B personality showdown has person with Type A exhibiting certain behaviors that the person with Type B does not. These behaviors are not always mutually exclusive, there can be a fair amount of overlap, but personality is generally seen as semi-permanent. There are certain trends in personality that you see in people. For instance, as people age, they tend to mellow out and not react so strongly to things that effect them as younger people. There are several competing ways to classify different personality types. Personality is generally thought to be something that is ingrained and less taught to you.

Values, though, are the internal driving factors that effect how a person reacts to events and can even help direct how a person thinks. Values are generally thought to be something that you are taught as you grow up, not necessarily something that you are