'affective drive' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in the psychological and philosophical fields to refer to the emotion-based motivations that propel behavior and decision-making. For example, "The affective drive of love and compassion was what ultimately led him to make the difficult choice."
Bruce's infatuation with Matteo is a malignant force, growing out of his fear of abandonment more than a healthy, affective drive.
On the other hand, Spinoza was to become an important figure for nineteenth-century philosophers, most notably for Friedrich Nietzsche, whose understanding of the will to power owes a great deal to Spinoza's understanding of our affective drive and who singles out Spinoza's treatment of pity for praise in the Genealogy of Morals (1887).
FMRI findings by Moll and Schulkin (2009), Moll et al. (2005a) and Moll et al. (2006), however, were interpreted as revealing a dissociation between group-oriented (i.e., pro-social) and self-oriented (i.e., egoistic) affective drives in moral cognition.
Meet AIDA, the Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant.
Meet Mr. Erik Bandzak, the Alternative to Suspension Coordinator for Baltimore City Schools, who was so inspired by Hampstead Hill Academy's work with restorative circles that he reached out to The International Restorative Justice Institute in Philadelphia to provide a more affective community driven methods of decreasing suspension and increasing safety and learning.
Although negative affective states may drive escalated ethanol drinking, few reported studies examined the phenotypes together.
Sometimes it seems as if he is favoring a quasi-Humean view according to which the intellect operates in the service of some anonymous affective and emotional drives in such a way that it just provides a set of necessary means to consciously realize what drives force us to do.
Consistent with this view, the current study presents a dual-process model, where more personal experience with extreme weather is expected to predict higher risk perceptions, and while higher risk perceptions in turn predict affect, negative affective evaluations are expected to simultaneously influence and drive higher risk perceptions of climate change.
In sexual touching, as distinct from the affective kind, touch seems driven toward necessity.
But he followed the latter's view that "the principle of performance or execution" is driven by affective desire.
In line with recent advances demonstrating that negative affective biases may be driven by specific medial prefrontal-amygdala circuitry, we asked whether serotonin manipulation can alter affective processing within a key dorsal medial prefrontal-amygdala circuit: the putative human homologue of the rodent prelimbic-amygdala circuit or 'aversive amplification' circuit.
