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Chapter 4 Affect as a Psychological Primitive

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Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Bliss‐Moreau, Eliza·2009·Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
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In this article, we discuss the hypothesis that affect is a fundamental, psychologically irreducible property of the human mind. We begin by presenting historical perspectives on the nature of affect. Next, we proceed with a more contemporary discussion of core affect as a basic property of the mind that is realized within a broadly distributed neuronal workspace. We then present the affective circumplex, a mathematical formalization for representing core affective states, and show that this model can be used to represent individual differences in core affective feelings that are linked to meaningful variation in emotional experience. Finally, we conclude by suggesting that core affect has psychological consequences that reach beyond the boundaries of emotion, to influence learning and consciousness.

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  • Interoceptive sensations are usually experienced as lower dimensional feelings of affect.

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    Section 2 describes core affect as grounded in bodily fluctuations and integrating interoceptive information; Section 4 describes it in two dimensions, valence and arousal. But Section 3 says that when affect is in the background of consciousness, it is perceived as a property of the world rather than as a feeling. The copy therefore supports the link between interoception and low-dimensional affect, but not the claim that interoceptive sensations are usually experienced as feelings of affect. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Barrett, L. F., & Bliss‐Moreau, E.
Affiliations
  • Boston College (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
ORCID
Venue
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier
Published
2009
Volume
41
Pages
167-218
ISSN
0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0065-2601(08)00404-8
PMC
PMC2884406
OpenAlex
W39174686
Cited by
621
References
37
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FWCI
30.07
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (DP1OD003312)
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG030311)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K02MH001981)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
affect, core affect, emotional experience, learning, consciousness

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