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| - | Affect is a term in psychology used to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. It's a less troublesome word than emotion, which can be used to describe both the feeling | + | Affect is a term in psychology used to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. It's a less troublesome word than emotion, which can be used to describe both a feeling and it's cause. Affect is the instinctual reaction to a stimulation. |
| Affective state is the current context of these reactions - the state of an agent' | Affective state is the current context of these reactions - the state of an agent' | ||
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| + | As well as emotions affective state can also describe moods, emotional disorders, attitudes and personality traits. | ||
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