Psychology Today | 22.12.2025 21:50Affect is a positive-to-negative experience in consciousness that has eluded a consensus understanding within psychology and neuroscience. The contemporary neuroscience perspectives of predictive processing (Clark, 2022; Rao & Ballard, 1999) and active inference (Parr et al., 2022) have shown a lot of promise in refining the concept of affect over the past three decades.
