A report on Emotion and Affect (psychology)
Affect, in psychology, refers to the underlying experience of feeling, emotion or mood.
- Affect (psychology)Affect is used to describe the underlying affective experience of an emotion or a mood.
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Suffering
2 linksExperience of unpleasantness or aversion, possibly associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual.
Experience of unpleasantness or aversion, possibly associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual.
Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.
The word suffering is sometimes used in the narrow sense of physical pain, but more often it refers to psychological pain, or more often yet it refers to pain in the broad sense, i.e. to any unpleasant feeling, emotion or sensation.
Valence (psychology)
1 linksValence, or hedonic tone, is the affective quality referring to the intrinsic attractiveness/"good"-ness (positive valence) or averseness/"bad"-ness (negative valence) of an event, object, or situation.
The term also characterizes and categorizes specific emotions.
Pleasure
1 linksPleasure refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something.
Pleasure refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something.
As such, pleasure is an affect and not an emotion, as it forms one component of several different emotions.
Mood (psychology)
0 linksIn psychology, a mood is an affective state.
In contrast to emotions or feelings, moods are less specific, less intense and less likely to be provoked or instantiated by a particular stimulus or event.