The phrase "affective trigger" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, emotional responses, or stimuli that evoke feelings.
Example: "The movie's soundtrack served as an affective trigger, bringing back memories of my childhood."
Alternatives: "emotional trigger" or "feeling stimulus".
Pulling tends to be both automatic (i.e., outside awareness) and focused (i.e., in response to identifiable affective triggers) within each individual, rather than exclusively one form or the other [ 16, 17] although it appears that there is a greater preponderance of automatic pulling in younger samples.
To date, rare cases of affective switches triggered by rTMS have been reported in bipolar subjects.
One reason for this is that affect is a multidimensional process that can be broken down into (at least) emotions, which are typically short-lived affective states triggered by specific stimuli and associated with specific autonomic changes; and moods, which are long-term background affective states with cumulative or unclear causes (1).
Exogenous glucocorticoids are known to trigger affective changes, but these are highly variable across individuals.
Prior studies indicate that environmental factors can trigger affective reactions in people.
The cues evoke sensory and affective experiences and trigger deliberative processes that lead to attitude construction and finally elicit approach behavior towards the advertisers.
Ten depressed and ten control subjects performed an emotional counting Stroop task designed to trigger affective change in the attentional background while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging and concurrent electrocardiography (ECG) on four occasions: week 0 (pre-treatment) and weeks 2, 6 and 12 of treatment on sertraline.
The medical history interface is designed not only to react to asked questions, but also to trigger affective reactions such as irritation, anger, fear, etc., with the VP depending on how questions are phrased, and whether they are repeated or inappropriate.
Hence, when a relevant stimulus is briefly encountered, it may be that for most women, irrespective of individual body image concerns, body-related concepts and affect are activated from memory [see [ 66]], such that a negative affective response is triggered in the presence of a "fat" concept and a positive affective response is activated in the presence of a "thinness" concept.
Taken together, our data provide evidence for a model in which the VLPFC integrates information about subcortically triggered affective somatic responses and information resulting from in-depth cortical stimulus processing.
