PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychological Resilience, Adobe After Effects, Boundary Value Problem
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The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. Emotions conceptualized as multicomponent response tendencies that unfold over relatively short time spans. Affect, a more general concept, refers to consciously accessible feelings. Although affect is present within emotions, it is also present within many other affective phenomena, including physical sensations, attitudes, moods, and even affective traits. Thus, emotions are distinct from affect in multiple ways. Emotions are typically about some personally meaningful circumstance, whereas affect is often free-floating or objectless. Emotions are typically brief and implicate the multiple-component systems whereas affect is often more long-lasting and may be salient only at the level of subjective experience. Emotions are often conceptualized as fitting into discrete categories of emotion families, like fear, anger, joy, and interest. Affect, by contrast, is often conceptualized as varying along two dimensions, either pleasantness and activation, or positive and negative emotional activation. Perspectives on the functions of affect and emotions.
