"In my conception of the Affect Management Framework (AMF; Haynes-LaMotte, 2025), affect is defined as an evaluative common currency in consciousness that is attached to the brain's goals and can be swayed by a combination of interoceptive senses, meaning-making processes, the processing dynamics of exteroceptive senses (sight and hearing), and the proprioceptive signals used to control the body. My previous post provided an overview of the framework. This post will explore additional principles of the AMF."
"People generally make decisions based on how they predict those decisions would affectively feel, whether or not that prediction is truly accurate (referred to as affective forecasting ( Wilson & Gilbert, 2005). For example, someone may choose not take a chance on something due to a sense of loss aversion, even though research suggests that loss aversion is an affective forecasting error ( Kermer, Driver-Linn, Wilson, & Gilbert, 2006)."
Affect operates as an evaluative common currency in consciousness linked to the brain's goals and influenced by interoceptive sensations, meaning-making, exteroceptive processing (sight and hearing), and proprioceptive signals. Affect management is anticipatory: decisions are guided by predicted affective outcomes (affective forecasting), which can produce biases such as loss aversion. Anticipated emotions often predict behaviors and judgments more strongly than currently experienced emotions. Affect management is multifaceted, arising from interactions among different brain processes, and contextual, with different affective features sought in different situations. Affect continuously impacts decision-making, not only during intense emotional episodes.
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