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Mood, similar to emotion, is a state of affect. Mood doesnât necessarily have to have a specific stimuli or cause but rather it is as a result of a more diffused and unfocused occurrence. Emotion, however, has a clear cause. Affect also describes the state of feeling or experience of emotion.
Affect is a concept used in psychology to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. The term affect takes on a different meaning in other fields. In psychology, affect mediates an organism's interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to affect display, which is a facial, vocal, or gestural behavior that serves as an indicator of affect. The affective domain represents one of the three divisions described in modern psychology: the cognitive, the conative, and the affective. C