Affective
adjective
Related to the emotions or mood.
Music has a strong affective power, it can make us feel happy, sad, excited or peaceful.
adjective
Connected with changes in the body that are caused by perception of feelings.
Affective responses are bodily responses that express or accompany an emotion.
adjective
Related to the emotions or mood.
Music has a strong affective power, it can make us feel happy, sad, excited or peaceful.
adjective
Connected with changes in the body that are caused by perception of feelings.
Affective responses are bodily responses that express or accompany an emotion.
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Influence
Affective describes something’s ability to impact our feelings.
The affective nature of the speech stirred the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Experience
It often refers to personal, subjective emotional experiences, not objective facts.
The affective aspect of the movie varied from person to person.
Pro Tip 3/3Art and Media
Commonly used in discussions about art, music, and literature, where emotional impact is key.
Affective elements in poetry enhance its impact.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Influence
Affective describes something’s ability to impact our feelings.
The affective nature of the speech stirred the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Experience
It often refers to personal, subjective emotional experiences, not objective facts.
The affective aspect of the movie varied from person to person.
Pro Tip 3/3Art and Media
Commonly used in discussions about art, music, and literature, where emotional impact is key.
Affective elements in poetry enhance its impact.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Influence
Affective describes something’s ability to impact our feelings.
The affective nature of the speech stirred the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Experience
It often refers to personal, subjective emotional experiences, not objective facts.
The affective aspect of the movie varied from person to person.
Pro Tip 3/3Art and Media
Commonly used in discussions about art, music, and literature, where emotional impact is key.
Affective elements in poetry enhance its impact.
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Video examples
Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday...
The first benefit of compassion is that it creates highly effective business leaders. What does that mean? There are three components of compassion. There is the affective component,
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Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday...
The first benefit of compassion is that it creates highly effective business leaders. What does that mean? There are three components of compassion. There is the affective component,
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Quote examples
Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
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Dana Schutz
American Artist
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Ray Walston
American Actor
I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.
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Sebastian Pinera
Chilean Statesman
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.
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Robin DiAngelo
American Educator
Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides.
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Heidi Hammel
American Scientist
If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.
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Jean Philippe Rameau
French Composer
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
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Dana Schutz
American Artist
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Ray Walston
American Actor
I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.
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Sebastian Pinera
Chilean Statesman
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.
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Robin DiAngelo
American Educator
Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides.
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Heidi Hammel
American Scientist
If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.
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Jean Philippe Rameau
French Composer
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.
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