The Affect Structure Revisited

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Veronique Rica Elefant-Yanni

University of Geneva - Psychology Department (FPSE)

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

University of Geneva - HEC

Date Written: February 17, 2005

Abstract

In affective psychology, there is a persistent controversy about the number, the nature and the definition of the affect structure dimensions. Responding to the methodological criticisms addressed to the preceding studies, we conciliated the principal theories regarding the affect structure with the same experimental setting. In particular, using the semantic items all around the circumplex we found three bipolar independent dimensions and using only the PANAS semantic items, we found two unipolar dimensions. Finally, we propose a heuristic theorization of affect based on a current firmly established in social sciences, coherent from semantics to sociology, but largely ignored by researchers in affective psychology , that allows to postulate that affect is all at once cognition, motivation and behaviour.

Suggested Citation

Elefant-Yanni, Veronique Rica and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia, The Affect Structure Revisited (February 17, 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1763233 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1763233

Veronique Rica Elefant-Yanni

University of Geneva - Psychology Department (FPSE) ( email )

40 bd. du Pont d'Arve
Geneva, Geneva CH-1205
Switzerland

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser (Contact Author)

University of Geneva - HEC ( email )

40 Boulevard du Pont d'Arve
Geneva 4, Geneva 1211
Switzerland

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