Affect, Emotion and Similar Concepts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25752/psi.3325Keywords:
Emotion, Mood, Affect, Sentiment, Mirror Neurons, Theory of MindAbstract
The author begins by commenting on the difficulty of the semantic delimitation between concepts of affect, emotion, sentiment, feeling, mood, and passion. This difficulty becomes greater when the terms are translated into different languages. He then foccuses on the concept of emotion, which has benefited from recent research, and its distinction from mood, a concept which is at the base of the psychopathology of bipolar disorders. Much more complex is the Portuguese concept of affect (different from the English concept), which has an interpersonal dimension and can be developed from recent discoveries of “mirror neurons” and “theory of mind”.
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