'affective needs' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is used to describe emotional and psychological needs such as intimate relationships, self-esteem and security. For example, "Many people struggle to meet their affective needs when dealing with depression or loneliness."
Understanding the affective needs of customers is crucial to the success of product design.
It aims at incorporating customers' affective needs into design elements that deliver customers' affective satisfaction.
One approach is to understand user emotions and affective needs, and predict successful product design that can match the needs.
Thematic content analyses indicate that the predominant educational ideology is to offer children and their families an individualized service with priority given to children's affective needs.
Perhaps a more realistic approach to accommodating users' affective needs is to design interactive technologies that would help users help themselves.
As one of the important applications of data mining, association rule mining lends itself to the discovery of useful patterns associated with the mapping of affective needs.
Information giving clearly does not help to fulfil patients' second need: 'the need to be recognized and understood', an affective need related to patients' emotional coping efforts, such as revealing worries and concerns [ 45].
So, children who are not breast fed, but fed on a bottle, may have unmet suction and psycho-affective needs and use a pacifier to satisfy them.
Since many of our everyday interactions are not purely rational, but involve emotions, an adequate paradigm that assesses prosocial behavior in an engaging, ecological setting and that is sensitive to affective interventions needs to be developed.
Although the origin of these gender differences in the affective ratings needs further investigation, we note the necessity for researchers interested in emotional words to take into account these interactions as potential sources of systematic error.
The alternate view that fish do not feel pain or experience affective states needs more careful consideration, particularly as it has consequences for understanding the neuroanatomical basis of phenomenal consciousness.
