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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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- Malcom Gladwell: Description of Tomkins
- Paul Ekman: Tomkins and Facial Expression
- Virginia Demos: Perplexing Obscurity
- Vernon Kelly: A Primer of Affect Psychology
- Don Nathanson: Prologue to Affect Imagery Consciousness
- Don Nathanson: The Empathic Wall and the Ecology of Affect
- Irving Alexander: Tomkins as Presenter
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