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Affect, emotion, or feeling is displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, voice characteristics, and other physical manifestation. These affect displays vary between and within cultures and are displayed in various forms ranging from the most discrete of facial expressions to the most dramatic and prolific gestures ...
Affect labeling is an implicit emotional regulation strategy that can be simply described as "putting feelings into words". Specifically, it refers to the idea that explicitly labeling one's, typically negative, emotional state results in a reduction of the conscious experience, physiological response, and/or behavior resulting from that emotional state. [1]
Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manifestations.
Affect regulation and "affect regulation theory" are important concepts in psychiatry and psychology and in close relation with emotion regulation. However, the latter is a reflection of an individual's mood status rather than their affect .
Scholarly work has noted the problematic nature of using the terms “emotion”, “affect” and “mood” interchangeably. [1] A lack of thorough understanding of these concepts could influence the choice of measures used in assessing the emotional components of interest in a study, leading to a less optimal research result.
Affective science is the scientific study of emotion or affect. This includes the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience and the recognition of emotions in others. Of particular relevance are the nature of feeling, mood, emotionally-driven behaviour, decision-making, attention and self-regulation, as well as the underlying ...
Affect consciousness (or affect integration - a more generic term for the same phenomenon) [1] refers to an individual's ability to consciously perceive, tolerate, reflect upon, and express affects. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These four abilities are operationalized as degrees of awareness, tolerance, emotional (nonverbal) expression , and conceptual (verbal ...
Affective science, the scientific study of emotion; Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users; Reduced affect display, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity; Pseudobulbar affect, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion