In the past two to three decades health behavior scientists have increasingly emphasized
affect-related concepts (including, but not limited to emotion) in their attempts to understand�…

In the last 20-30 years, research on affective determinants of health behavior has
proliferated. Affective Determinants of Health Behavior brings together this burgeoning area�…

Objective: The goal of this article is to provide insight into how recent findings from affective
science may be translated into the health arena. Methods: We first review definitional issues�…

The role of affective constructs in human behavior in general, and health behavior in
particular, is recapturing the attention of researchers. Affect, mood, and emotion are again�…

Efforts aimed at understanding and changing health decisions and behaviour have relied on
theoretical frameworks or models comprised of social-cognitive determinants, such as�…

In this chapter we apply a unified theoretical conceptualization (see also Andrade, 2005)
that includes both informational and goal-directed properties of affect to three important�…

There are a variety of different emotions that people experience. How should differences in
emotional experiences be characterized? What psychological variables account for them�…

Global aspects of emotion have been central to psychosocial theories of health and health
behavior for several decades. A growing body of research has documented key roles for�…

Despite decades of research establishing the causes and consequences of emotions in the
laboratory, we know surprisingly little about emotions in everyday life. We developed a�…

Do negative feelings in general trigger addictive behavior, or do specific emotions play a
stronger role? Testing these alternative accounts of emotion and decision making, we drew�…