Bodily functionality and morphology and affective self control.

Children who have lived through what no child should ever have to live through need psychosocial affective support.

What these people did when they synthesized happiness is they really, truly changed their affective, hedonic, aesthetic reactions to that poster.

Short and long term mental training studies (such as the ReSource project) reveal that mental training programs can enhance cognitive and socio affective faculties like attention, compassion, and empathy.

Examples of features of group emotions include the level of variability of emotions among members (i.e., affective diversity), the proportion of positive or negative emotions, and the modal (i.e., most common) emotion present in a group.

And if you look at these qualities in the context of compassion, we find that the cognitive and affective components of compassion understanding people and empathizing with people inhibits, tones down, what I call the excessive self obsession that's in us, therefore creating the conditions for humility.

Emotionally extreme members Even if there is only one member in an otherwise averaged group which is extremely negative (or positive) in effect, that person might influence the affective state of the other members and cause the group to be much more negative (or positive) than would be expected from its mean level dispositional affect.