Pleasant and Unpleasant Emotions in Literature: A Comparison with the Affective Tone of Psychology

1968 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Lindauer
Keyword(s):  
Affective Tone ◽  
Emotions In Literature

How Demographic Faultlines and Impression Management Behaviors Influence Group Affective Tone

2021 ◽  
pp. 104649642199391
Author(s):  
Nai-Wen Chi ◽  
Wei-Chi Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Categorization ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Impression Management ◽  
Reduced Group ◽  
Group Affective Tone ◽  
Management Behaviors

Drawing on the social categorization perspective, we theorized that team demographic faultlines increase negative group affective tone (NGAT) through reduced group identification, while team member positive impression management behaviors enhance positive group affective tone (PGAT) via enhanced group identification. Data were collected from 523 members of 101 newly formed student teams. Consistent with our hypotheses, team demographic faultlines were positively predicted NGAT via reduced group identification, while team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors were positively associated with PGAT through group identification. Importantly, team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors also mitigated the social categorization processes triggered by team demographic faultlines.

scholarly journals Struggling to Fix Teams in Real Work Settings: A Challenge Assessment and an Intervention Toolbox

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos-María Alcover ◽  
Ramón Rico ◽  
Michael West
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Team Assessment ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract After more than 80 years in predicting organizational performance, empirical evidence reveals a science of teams that seems unable to consistently implement solutions for teams performing in real work settings –outside and away from the isolated teams breeding in research laboratories in the academic context. To bridge this growing practitioners-researchers divide, we first identify five main challenges involved in working with teams today (purposeful team staffing; proper task design and allocation; task and interaction process functionality; appropriate affective tone; and suitable team assessment). And second, we offer a toolbox of interventions (empowering and restorative) to help practitioners to transform the potential threats inherent in these challenges into opportunities for team effectiveness. Our five-challenge diagnosis and proposed intervention toolbox contribute to better address research questions and theoretical falsifiability using teams performing in real work settings, and to assess and intervene in teams by adjusting their internal functioning to contextual conditions and constraints.

Delusional Mood

2018 ◽  
pp. 742-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads Gram Henriksen ◽  
Josef Parnas
Keyword(s):  
Affective Tone ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Concept

This article examines the clinical concept of delusional atmosphere or mood, which denotes a predelusional state that may precede the formation of primary delusion in schizophrenia. Delusional mood refers to a global, diffuse, ominous feeling of something (not yet defined) impending. This article explores how schizophrenia spectrum patients usually experience delusional mood and it accounts for certain typical phases that tend to lead to the crystallization of primary delusion. In brief, delusional mood often involves an increase of basic affective tone, followed by an atmosphere of apprehension, free-floating anxiety, guilt, or depression, perhaps of something impending. The delusional mood becomes increasingly self-referential and eventually the world may come to be experienced as staged, artificial, or unreal. The current diagnostic manuals make no reference to delusional mood and thus it risks slipping “under the radar” or being mistaken for, for example, expressions of anxiety or depression.

Atmospheres of Protest

2021 ◽  
pp. 664-678
Author(s):  
Illan rua Wall
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Commentators often remark upon the “festive” or “tense” atmosphere of major protests. This seems to signify the general outlook of the protestors or the relations between them and the police. It signals the potential of the protests to unfold in a peaceful, joyous manner or with violence. While “festive” and “tense” are useful ways of thinking about protest atmospheres, they are often used in a highly reductive manner. The literature on atmosphere from social movement studies also tends to reproduce this reductive idea of atmosphere, whereby it can be understood through unidimensional metrics. This chapter discusses the social movement literature and opens the debate about atmospheres of protest more widely. Ultimately there is a much greater variety of atmospheric conditions in moments of protest. These nestle together, changing and interacting as the conditions shift. Atmospheres are the affective tone of space. They are produced by those gathered in that space, by the spatial dynamics and the affective social conditions. Atmospheres affect those present, changing their capacity to act. Thus it is important that we understand their potential.

Affect

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
The Self ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Force Dynamics ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Affective Value

Schemata acquire affective value through force dynamics at the deepest level of cognition. Affect is a transitive activity between the self as agonist and an “other” as antagonist that arises from sensory, motor, or emotive factors. In poetry, affect results primarily from a poem’s sonic and structural prosody to create the impression or “illusion” of virtual life. The affect respondents feel isn’t something static “in” the poem but a dynamic response to the poet’s intensions and motivations. Missing a poem’s affective tone can lead to misreading its emotive import and misevaluating the poet’s intension, as the discussion shows in a poem by Thomas Hardy. It also shows how the force dynamics of the FEAR schema in a Wallace Stevens poem creates an icon of danger confronting the self’s homeostasis. The chapter ends by summarizing the aspects of affective schemata that can lead to a theory of a model of affect in poetry and life.

A Dictionary of Affect in Language: IV. Reliability, Validity, and Applications

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Whissell ◽  
Michael Fournier ◽  
Rene Pelland ◽  
Deborah Weir ◽  
K. Makarec
Keyword(s):  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Verbal Learning ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Learning Experiment ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Media Characters ◽  
Affective Dimensions

The 1984 Dictionary of Affect in Language by Sweeney and Whisseli includes more than 4,000 words which have been rated along the bipolar affective dimensions of Evaluation and Activation. A series of three experiments was conducted to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Dictionary and to improve its reliability by the inclusion of additional ratings. Exp. I, II, and III demonstrate the reliability of the Dictionary values and provide evidence of concurrent validity. A further series of three experiments (IV, V, VI) was designed to apply the Dictionary as a tool for assessing or preselecting the affective tone of words. Success (as defined by significant effects) is associated with the use of the Dictionary in choosing words for a verbal learning experiment (IV) and its use to score freely produced self-descriptive word lists (V) and the description of famous media characters (VI).

scholarly journals Psychological impact of mass violence depends on affective tone of media content

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e0213891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolie Baumann Wormwood ◽  
Yu-Ru Lin ◽  
Spencer K. Lynn ◽  
Lisa Feldman Barrett ◽  
Karen S. Quigley
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Affective Tone
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