In "Affective Thought," Dewey argues against separation between physiological processes and high culture, between art and science, and between thought and emotion.
Dewey wrote two essays in the early 1930s, "Qualitative Thought," and "Affective Thought," both included in Philosophy and Civilization Deweyy 1931), which developed his nascent aesthetics further.
If there is no functioning brain stem, there can be no meaningful or integrated activity of the cerebral hemispheres, no cognitive or affective life, no thoughts or feelings, no social interaction with the environment, nothing that might legitimize adding the adjective sapiens ("wise") to the noun Homo ("man").
They also reported low levels of affective distress, catastrophizing thoughts, and self-efficacy in various activities, high levels of fear of movement, low degrees of pain-related disability, and low morale.
It has been recently recognized that dyspnea, like pain, is a complex symptom with both sensory and affective domains, the latter thought to be processed in central limbic neural structures.
An alternative response is so-called 'positive rumination', "the tendency to respond to positive affective states with recurrent thoughts about positive self-qualities, positive affective experience, and one's favourable life circumstances" (Feldman et al. 2008, p. 509).
This study employed a second-order false-belief paradigm in which the cognitive perspective-taking questions tapped the character's thoughts and the affective perspective-taking questions tapped the emotions generated by these thoughts.
Horace and Longinus developed, respectively, the rhetorical and the affective sides of Aristotle's thought, but Longinus effectively reversed the Aristotelian concern with regulation of the passions.
12 Metacognition is the analytic practice of explicitly examining one's thought processes and affective state and considering their effects on diagnostic reasoning.
The notion of trait phenotype is usually applied to persistent expressive or behavioral features (e.g., persistent subtle formal thought disorder or inadequate affective modulation).
Complete remission is defined according to consensus criteria as a rating of mild or less on the following positive and negative symptom scale items (Positive domain: hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behaviour, positive formal thought disorder; Negative domain: affective flattening or blunting; alogia; avolition-apathy; anhedonia-asociality) for a period of six months [ 55].
