 These influences include feelings (such as moods, emotions, and metacognitive experiences), inferences about the meaning implicit in questions, and whether feelings and thoughts are used to form a representation of the target of judgment or the standard against which it is compared.Norbert Schwarz proposed the "feelings-as-information" hypothesis, one of the most influential explanations for the cognitive consequences of affect.According to this perspective, when people make judgments about a target, they rely upon their feelings as diagnostic information about the target of judgment.