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affect  

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  • The most common use of the term affect refers to a general category of “feelings” such as mood and emotion. The term represents a supposedly noncognitive dimension of human life, in which stimulus processing is translated into valenced feelings instead of knowledge. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Affect]

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