PsychologyAugust 16, 2026

affective

uh-FEK-tiv

Definition

Relating to moods, feelings, and emotional responses rather than logic or cognition.

Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'affectivus,' meaning inclined to feel or having an emotion, which itself stems from the verb 'afficere' meaning to act upon or influence.

In the news

The article uses the term to describe research models that focus on the emotional dynamics and interaction processes between couples during conflict.

A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in a fresh sample it was right only 29 percent of the time, which is the trouble with rules like these

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