Affect

They have trouble with scheduling.

Affective-wise, some people can... appear to be stubborn, right, or stuck in their ways.

That can be how we perceive it.

And I have a lot of friends.

So for those of you who may be listening and don't work with children often, something to perhaps notice and to encourage when you are working with children or maybe even your own children.

is that since I've been teaching for 41 years, I have noticed since COVID specifically, children's facial affect, when we say affect, A-F-F-E-C-T, their ability to have those emote, as you said, their facial expressions are very flat.

And the ability to read facial expressions has been gone.

And sometimes what they're saying does not match the face.

Right.

Affective empathy, on the other hand, is the involuntary physiological response of actually feeling their emotional state in your own body.

Oh, wow.

And the highly advanced processor often possesses both in extremes, coupled with that hypervigilant pattern recognition we discussed earlier.

You know they're in pain.

Affective empathy is when you actually feel what they feel.

To see them in pain hurts you as well.

Dissident empathy is the opposite.

Foundationally, foundationally, now, now to become a mediator, there are about 250 different ki- skills you have to master, and we, we, we, we teach these skills in Prison of Peace.

But the, but the foundational skill upon which, which it's all based is a specific kind of listening called tech- the technical term is called affect, A-F-F-E-C-T, labeling.

What it really means- ... is, "Barry, I'm gonna observe your emotions, what you're experiencing emotionally, and then I'm gonna tell you what you feel with a you statement.

Barry, you're angry.

Um, and it's not, and your motor response isn't critical either because, like, I, I could say, "Yes, uh, means that you push the right button," or, "Yes, means you push the left button." So you can switch those around.

But what we're really interested in is that inter- intermediary anticipatory Affective, I would call it, response.

Um, so that's...

I don't know if that helps explain, like, the way we structure the experiments or pull apart the circuits, basically.

Now, according to an article for Psychology Today, there are two types of empathy that humans experience.

Affective and cognitive empathy.

Effective empathy makes our motor neurons fire.

This mimics the feelings of the individual in distress.

Correct.

Called affect labeling.

Affect, A-F-F-E-C-T.

Affect labeling.

It's very simple.