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- Affects evolved as the system of motivation for human beings
- Nine affects, present at birth, combine to form emotions
- The face is the primary organ of affect
- When positive affects are thwarted, shame happens
- Affective learning becomes programmed as scripts
- Our ideology is shaped by how we learn to respond to affects
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- Don Nathanson: Prologue to Affect Imagery Consciousness
- Don Nathanson: The Empathic Wall and the Ecology of Affect
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Why We All Need to Know About Silvan Tomkins
Tomkins' affect theory explains human emotion, motivation, behavior, and personality elegantly, completely, and convincingly. We owe it to him to test, retest, and apply his theory, so that we might unlock the good it can do and the truth it exposes.
