Monitoring affective symptoms, not to miss early warning signs, is typically accomplished with the assistance of mood charting, which, however, has inherent limitations in clinical practice.
We decided to investigate the effect of a total system combining electronic self-monitoring and a feedback system between patients and clinicians in order to help patients acknowledge illness activity and identify and react more adequately on early warning signs and triggers of affective episodes.
Another work studied the affective-cognitive and linguistic aspects of software warning and security messages, and pointed out that the linguistic complexity of messages is often related to the effect of attention, attitudes and beliefs [25].
We first measured smokers' implicit attitudes toward smoking using an affective priming method and found that our new warning labels changed positive attitudes into ambivalent attitudes.
According to a recent Cochrane review, self-help and psychological treatments that teach patients, alongside other psychological interventions, to recognize and manage early warning signs have been shown to delay time to a new affective episode (Morriss et al. 2007).
These results suggest that auditory warning systems for vehicles should avoid using emotion-laden sounds, as their affective content might diminish their utility to increase driving alertness.
Note here the use of the phrase "trigger warnings" as shorthand for inadequately scholarly, overly affective response.
280 pp. In the spring of 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt advised Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". His prescient warning sums up the argument Joseph Masco extends in The Theater of Operations, a compelling account of how affective Cold War politics transformed the US into a security state whose existence and annihilation hinge on a volatile sentiment: fear.
Rather, current research on acute suicide prediction has focused largely on warning signs that are patient-dependent, such as precipitating events [ 5- 9], behavior changes [ 10, 11], or intense affective states [ 12- 19].
