The basic idea is that momentary affective states are under the control of more enduring sentiments.

Speech recognition is a great method of identifying affective state, having an average success rate reported in research of 63%.

However, although an individual's affective states can influence the somatic changes, these individuals are not hypochondriacs.

In the second method, participants are told to assume a certain body posture and then must complete a survey on their current affective state.

The infant moves back and forth between two different affective states.

It has also been defined as an "affective state of exaggerated well-being or elation."

Deep brain stimulation of these systems in humans can also generate similar affective states.

Studies have found that generosity increases linearly from sad to happy affective states.

Gelotophobia, emotion-related skills and responses to the affective states of others.

An affective state of hopelessness, in other words a sense that nothing will ever get better, is a powerful predictive feature.