Affect, Emotion, and Ecocriticism

Affect , Mood , and Emotion

'W"he study of emotions, moods, and affect (col­ llectively referred to here as affective phenomena) presents a considerable challenge for researchers. This is an area characterized by a bewildering mul­ tiplicity of constructs, several alternative theories for mch construct, and multiple measures based on each theory. The history of research and theorizing on affec­ live phenomena is long, and...

Emotion Positive Affect , Social Connectedness , and Healthy

Introduction: Analysing Emotion and Theorising Affect

This discussion introduces ideas of emotion and affect for a volume of articles demonstrating the scope of approaches used in their study within the humanities and creative arts. The volume offers multiple perspectives on emotion and affect within 20th-century and 21st-century texts, arts and organisations and their histories. The discussion explains how emotion encompasses the emotions, emotio...

Neural basis of affect and emotion.

Research on affect and emotion has recently been informed by novel methods and theories in cognitive neuroscience. This perspective, known as affective neuroscience, has the potential to dramatically improve our understanding of fundamental processes of emotion. In this article, we review the major neural systems involved in emotion and consider the computational properties of these regions. Sp...

Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation.

The affective biasing of attention is not typically considered to be a form of emotion regulation. In this article, we argue that 'affect-biased attention' - the predisposition to attend to certain categories of affectively salient stimuli over others - provides an important component of emotion regulation. Affect-biased attention regulates subsequent emotional responses by tuning one's filters...