I think the idea is that affect is the outward appearance of a feeling or emotion or whatever. You could tell what your own affects are, but you’d have to look in a mirror or something.
You can feel sad, but affect happiness*, and appear to others as displaying a highly positive affect**.
* non-scientific usage** scientific usage
You can feel sad, but signal happiness, and appear to others as displaying a highly positive affect.
Ok, so how would one signal happiness?
I think the idea is that affect is the outward appearance of a feeling or emotion or whatever. You could tell what your own affects are, but you’d have to look in a mirror or something.
You can feel sad, but affect happiness*, and appear to others as displaying a highly positive affect**.
* non-scientific usage
** scientific usage
You can feel sad, but signal happiness, and appear to others as displaying a highly positive affect.
Ok, so how would one signal happiness?