A report on Emotion and Affect (psychology)

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A mother and her child showing affect.
Examples of basic emotions
The emotion wheel.
Two dimensions of emotions. Made accessible for practical use.
Two dimensions of emotion
Illustration from Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
Simplified graph of James-Lange Theory of Emotion
Timeline of some of the most prominent brain models of emotion in affective neuroscience.

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.

- Emotion
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Suffering

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Experience 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.

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Mahavira torch-bearer of ahimsa
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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)

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Valence, 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

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Pleasure 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.

Visual Representation of Commonly Experienced Moods

Mood (psychology)

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Visual Representation of Commonly Experienced Moods

In 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.

Affect display

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Affect displays are the verbal and non-verbal displays of affect (emotion).