Comments on: Blurred Definitions of Affect and Emotion

By: Andrew Magergut

Andrew Magergut — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:21:34 +0000

Jeremy,
Thanks for your reply, which I had missed unfortunately.
Emotional yes, but I also meant a range of physical symptoms one experiences alongside emotion: music vibrates, resonates, physically entangles the body. So, it could be a symptom resulting from an emotional stimulus combined with, say, vibration or resonance. With various music styles and acoustic arrangements, music is an embodied symptomatic experience as never before.
Obviously, this is nothing new: cf http://www.amazon.com/Boccherinis-Body-Essay-Carnal-Musicology/dp/0520240170

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:52:00 +0000

Anon, thank you, glad you're enjoying it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:48:00 +0000

I enjoyed your blog, it really made me think about my own view of emotions and would have to say that in my own experience emotions are hard to define and can be very misleading. In studying my own emotional responses I have found that my emotions effect at least 80% of my actions and responses. I am trying to put some order to my own understanding of how I work emotionally as a person. I really appreciate that you make it clear with out much jargon...Thanks

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:03:00 +0000

Andrew, interesting question, to be honest reading back this post 6 months after I wrote it, I'm none the clearer what these definitions are referring to.

Are you actually referring to an emotional effect though here when you say your stomach is resonating?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:54:00 +0000

This is a question that may be relevant to all studying contemporary art theory (like myself), but specifically with regard to acoustic effects which are very often a part of so many contemporary musical practices.

There are obviously many ways of describing these experiments in which the sound actively engages with various elements of our perceptual body map, reconfiguring it at whim, making it more subtle, re-shaping it in a variety of ways.

More specifically, when, say, I "feel" my stomach resonate along with some acoustic effect, which term would best describe the resulting (rogue) awareness? using damasio's taxonomy would that be affect or still sfmc? is there am actual way of knowing where one ends and the other begins?

Many Thanks,
Andrew Magergut

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:08:00 +0000

Thanks for your response. the overall use of language is a bit complecated to me. because when i enjoying reading your post,i am also learning psychology from you, if the language you use could keep in simple and go with example, it will be more fun and make sense to me~:) thanks~~~~

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:35:00 +0000

I'm glad you enjoy the blog. OK, I will see what I can do to keep it clear. Can you tell me: is it particular psychological terms that are confusing or the overall use of language?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:00:00 +0000

I do enjoy reading your blog, it is very educative and applicable. however some articles might go too deep that make me hard to understand...can you use simply language in your next post? that will help the laymen like me easier to receive your view...thanks~