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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Emotions > Affect

Preferred term

Affect  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Mood
  • Moods

Scope note

  • The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.

History note

  • 65(64); was see under EMOTIONS 1963-64

In other languages

  • affekti

    Finnish

  • affektielämys
  • kiihtymys
  • mielenliikutus
  • tunteenpurkaus
  • Sinnesrörelse

    Swedish

  • Affekt
  • Humör

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000339

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