Affect plays a central role in human experience, providing the ongoing hedonic tone that
colors the everyday lives of individuals. Not surprisingly, therefore, affect occupies an …

Publisher Summary Once an individual has crossed the line at which withdrawal
symptomatology emerges in the absence of drug self-administration, that person is deemed …

Most models of affect suggest either inverse or null associations between positivity and
negativity. Recent work has highlighted situations that sometimes lead to mixed positive …

With a view to measuring subjective experience of mixed emotions, we designed an
Analogical Emotional Scale (AES). This scale permits the analysis of how, at the subjective …

This investigation applied Zautra and colleagues' Dynamic Model of Affect (DMA; Zautra:
2003, Emotions, Stress and Health (Oxford University Press, New York); Reich et al.: 2003 …

I begin by briefly considering how" value" has been formally defined, which provides a
preliminary answer to the question," What is value?" Next, I review in more detail …

How should the affective component of attitudes be conceptualised and measured? Three
studies compared measures based on different conceptualisations. Affective attitudes can …

Negative affect measures were evaluated in a cross-sectional community sample of adults
aged 18–93 (N= 335) to examine the structure of neuroticism, anxiety, and depressive …

One important area of positive psychology examines happiness and subjective well-being
(SWB; Diener, 2000). Diener (1984) noted that SWB has an affective and a cognitive …

This study examined if the relation between momentary positive and negative affect varies
with culture and gender. In eight samples covering five languages (English, Spanish …