What is "affective"

Usage examples of "affective".

We have, however, still to examine what is called the affective phase of the Soul.

Because representations attack it at what we call the affective phase and cause a resulting experience, a disturbance, to which disturbance is joined the image of threatened evil: this amounts to an affection and Reason seeks to extinguish it, to ban it as destructive to the well-being of the Soul which by the mere absence of such a condition is immune, the one possible cause of affection not being present.

As slight variation on a theme, linguistic as well as affective, this is his authorial signature.

Relative efficacy of modeling therapeutic changes for inducing behavioral, attitudinal and affective changes.

Untreated chronic disorders such as anemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, untreated thyroid conditions, seasonal affective disorder, menopausal or perimenopausal symptoms, or immune-deficiency problems can make a person too exhausted to conjure up a creative new life.

There are lots of assiduously propagated myths about the almost mystical implications of lateralization in the human brain, ranging from radical feminist and biological determinist views on left-brain cognitive masculinity versus right-brain affective femininity to the claims of the Catholic Nobel Prizewinning neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles, who asserts that only humans show such functional lateralization, and that the left hemisphere is the seat of the soul.

This labor is immaterial, even if it is corporeal and affective, in the sense that its products are intangible, a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction, excitement, or passion.

None of her precautions was very affective, though she was a little wanner than she had been.

Channa Harknell, the development of an affective link with me is one of your major preliminary tasks as Envoy.

It was his weakness as well as his strength, this ability - no this need - to form affective links.

Two is the ability to form affective links with people outside your nation and to acknowledge that fact openly.

The person (as image and emotional representation) becomes a part of your emotional patterns (your overall affective mood states and structures), and thus is in that emotional space as surely as food is in your stomach, but these two boundaries are not at all the same simple physical boundary (and that is what I mean when I say that an entity is in a structure or a holon when it is following the patterns or rules of the deep structure of that holon: I can emotionally identify with people, causes, groups, nations, no matter where they are actually located: they become part of me when I take them into my emotional identity, my emotional space, and they then operate within that space, following its particular rules, or the patterns of my affective mood states, which themselves might accommodate, or shift deep structure, in order to assimilate the new items).

It is by the interest and importance that experiences have for us, by the emotions they excite, and the purposes they subserve, by their affective values, in short, that their consecution in our several conscious streams, as 'thoughts' of ours, is mainly ruled.

The weather, with its constant overcast, is such that 943 out of the 1,006 people on this expedition have had to be treated for the form of depression known as 'seasonal affective disorder.

Shaftoe and Bischoff, both mired in the yet-to-be-discovered emotional dumps of Seasonal Affective Disorder, are like two brothers trapped in the same pit of quicksand, each keeping a sharp eye on the other.