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Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) [1] was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory.
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.
They are the biological system that underlies emotion. Since the terms used to talk about feelings and emotions are often confusing, let’s take a moment to define a few of the terms of Tomkins’ system, and then we’ll return to focus on the nine innate affects.
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Tomkins called the basic unit of experience a scene; it is made up of Stimulus–Affect–Response, or SAR. Multiple similar scenes are often bundled together and the patterns and rules that emerge from them, he called a script.
Jul 7, 2010 · Working within the traditions of both Darwin and Freud, Silvan S. Tomkins fused evolutionary and psychodynamic concepts to describe the specific kinds of affects, their mechanism of action, and...
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