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- Tomkins uses the concept of affect to refer to the "biological portion of emotion," defined as the "hard-wired, preprogrammed, genetically transmitted mechanisms that exist in each of us," which, when triggered, precipitate a "known pattern of biological events".
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Throughout much of his professional life Silvan Tomkins organized his work around the central concern of understanding human motivation, or as he expressed it, in the lead paper of this section on affect theory, he was engaged in a love affair with an idea: “What do human beings really want?”.
- E. Virginia Demos
- 1995
According to the psychologist Silvan Tomkins, there are nine primary affects. Tomkins characterized affects by low/high intensity labels and by their physiological expression: [3] Positive: Enjoyment/Joy (reaction to success/impulse to share) – smiling, lips wide and out.
Silvan Tomkins, a psychologist and playwright, developed Affect Theory from the 1960s until his death in 1992. He understood our feelings & emotions are biologically-based and wrote Affect Imagery Consciousness. This 4-volume work explains how we form our personality, develop strategies to survive, and alter our responses to life as needed.
Contrasting the drives, Tomkins’ affects are general, flexible, and abstract. Tomkins names nine ‘affects’ and they are universal, bio-chemical, neuro-physiological mechanisms and processes of the body that amplify triggering information. Nathanson (1992) succinctly calls affect the “biological portion of emotion” [2] (p. 49). Tomkins ...
Jul 7, 2010 · Tomkins detailed the nature of affect itself and the triggers for each of the nine affects, demonstrating: 1) the nature, development, and transformations of the affect system; 2) its...
Through the twin influences of Darwin and the new science of cybernetics, Tomkins proposed the existence of a limited number of universal "affect programs" or basic emotions, which he theorized as innately triggered responses that function independently of objects or cognitions.
OPEN ACCESS. The negative affects take up a lot of space in Tomkins’s affect theory. The second volume of AIC opens with the cry of distress-anguish and is then occupied for more than four hundred pages with the vicissitudes of shame-humiliation and contempt-disgust.
