Exercise also increased affective activation, but there was no mediating effect of change in affect on chocolate consumption.
The activation of reward circuitry may promote change in affect, which may be baseline dependent.
To differentiate between these two possibilities, it is instructive to review the other measurements we took to try to better establish the nature of any change in affect.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is characterized by pronounced changes in affect, self-regulation, and social conduct.
We used a prospective, repeated daily sampling design to infer the regulation of affect from day-to-day changes in affect intensity and examined how these changes in affect were prospectively related to pain from rheumatoid arthritis.
This could be mediated by changes in affect regulation, cognitive functioning or an increased impulsivity in association with maladaptive coping mechanisms.
Despite behavioral evidence that variation in ovarian hormones is associated with changes in affect, the neural basis of these processes is poorly understood.
Research has been undertaken with respect to a variety of behaviors, notably changes in affect, challenging behavior, relaxation and interactions with both other persons and objects.
Therapeutic horseback riding did not produce systematic changes in affect, responding to others' initiations, spontaneous initiations, off-task behavior, compliance, problem behavior, or performance on two standardized measures.
These changes in affect and correlated neural activity may lead individuals to prefer positively skewed gambles to negatively skewed gambles.
