• Enjoyment-Joy: Basically ranging from contentment when we are just comfortable right through to the joy when a baby is born and everything in between; we can see that affect on someone’s face, the smile of joy, of recognition, of satisfaction.

• Interest-Excitement: This is the affect which makes us pay attention to the world around us – look out the window to see the view, climb a hill to view a landscape, read a book, get attracted to someone, begin a relationship. It moves from mild interest where we might just notice something in passing right up to the wild excitement, for example, when our favorite sporting team wins. Without this affect there wouldn’t be much to do – even the drives depend on interest to become urgent. The hunger drive, for example, would be reasonably weak were it not amplified by an interest in food, Again, we can see if someone is interested just by looking at their face. 

• Surprise-Startle: This is like a reset system to blank our mind momentarily and make us aware of a sudden change in our environment. It is really easy to see startle or surprise on another. 

• Anger-Rage

• Distress-Anguish

• Fear-Terror

• Dissmell: Stops us getting something that smells rotten anywhere near our mouth. Involuntarily, our head goes back, our lips protrude and our nose crinkles. 

• Disgust: Expels anything we have put in our mouth that might have looked all right but tastes or feels awful. Think of how a baby responds the first time it is offered solid food. More importantly, as our species has evolved, disgust and dissmell also start to be about our relationships with others. Think about people who have been in a close relationship, married or close friends, and now they are apart. How do they refer to one another? Have you ever heard a person express disgust at the thought of being touched by a former partner or dismell at the reminder of the perfume or aftershave the father used? Matt once spoke to a little girl about another who had fallen out with the friendship group. ‘Oh, we don’t like her,’ she said with her nose turned up in a sneer of desmell. So if these are the affects of divorce and separation, they are also the affects of racial intolerance. Have you noticed how racist language is almost always couched in terms of disgust or dismell?

• Shame-Humiliation: This is the affect that occurs whenever anything partially interferes with our experience of the two positive affects. 

Feedback system and create a general plan of action in each person sometimes conscious and often unconscious

We are continually motivated by our inborn biological systems to:

Scripts: (Emotional learning) our sensory system receives a message (a stimulus) and an affect program is triggered with several facial and bodily responses. 

Stimulus- Affect- Response- Script

Affective resonance- (feelings are contagious) One begins to feel angry if talking with someone who is agry about something. Triggers in the same affet we are exhibiting.