Classifying human's affective states is a quite tough problem. Recently I've discovered some splendid methods invented by Dr. Klaus Scherer, director of Swiss Center for Affective Sciences. The first way of classification implies two-dimensional space based on activity and evaluation axes, as shown below.
A more detailed approach splits all the affective states into five categories: Emotion, Mood, Interpersonal Stances, Attitudes, and Personality Traits.
Emotion: Is the episode relatively brief of synchronized responses for all or most organic systems to the evaluation of an external or internal event as being of major significance. Emotion’s examples are anger, sadness, joy, fear, shame, pride, elation and desperation.
Mood: Is a diffuse affective state that consists in the subjective feeling changing, with low intensity, but long duration without apparent cause. Dipert (1998) considers that moods differ from emotions most strongly in not having an intentional object. Their causes are typically conceptual or evaluative (things are or are not going well). He mentions some examples of moods: cheerful, gloomy, irritable, listless, de-pressed, and buoyant.
Interpersonal Stance: The interpersonal stance is an affective position in relation to the other person in a specific interaction. Distant, cold, warm, supportive and contemptuous are examples of interpersonal stances.
Attitudes: Attitudes are relatively tolerant, affectively coloured beliefs, preferences and predisposition in relation to objects or people. Examples of attitudes are liking, loving, hating, desiring and valuing
Personality Traits: Personality traits are emotionally laden, stable personality dis-positions and behavior tendencies, typical of a person. For example: nervous, anxious, reckless, morose, hostile, envious and jealousy.
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