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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2020 Sep 30;120:574–582. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.024

Figure 1: The relationship between affective phenomena and time scale.

Figure 1:

Momentary affect is related to temporally quick or fleeting experience that can either be conscious or unconscious. At longer timescales, temporally extended affective states (TEAS) are differentiated from moods on the basis of conscious awareness. This temporal distinction can be mapped to the state (yellow) to trait (blue) continuum, where states are temporally bound and traits are general characteristics of individuals that are not bounded in time. We note that the temporal boundary between momentary affective states and TEAS/mood, represented here as the gradient transition between yellow and green, as well as the temporal boundary between state and trait, represented here as the gradient transition between yellow and blue, is not clear based on the literature and could be differentially positioned, as depicted in panels a and b.