Bodily functionality and morphology and affective self control.

There is the affective component, which is, I feel for you.

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.

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.

Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought. Errors in medical and legal decision making have also been linked to specific irrational thinking tendencies that psychologists have studied.

Although neuroscientists are adept at studying pain, animal models fail to account for its affective motivational component that is, pain s emotional, cognitive, and contextual features. Indeed, physiological indicators have less of an impact on a patient s prognosis after a painful injury than psychological and social factors such as depression or poor coping skills.