What is it about?
A typology of basic affective and cognitive orientations is developed within a generic cultural socio-cognitive trait theory of a “plural affect agency” (the emotional organisation). Design: Affective personality is defined in terms of a set of affect traits. These are defined in terms of epistemically independent bipolar affect types, which in turn coalesce into a set of mindset types that can be related to the classical four temperaments. Findings: Different affect types are supposed to differently regulate the three stages of emotion management. Affect types and cognitive types provide mutual contexts, and foster reciprocal affect and cognitive orientations.
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Why is it important?
This is important because affect and cognition are interacting. Very often the interaction between affect and cognition is not known.
Perspectives
Research implications: The theory provides guidance for analysis of cultural differentiation within social systems (societies/organisations), with reference to identification, elaboration and execution of “emotion knowledge” and ‘cognitive knowledge’. Practical implications: Understanding interdependencies between cognition and emotion regulation is a prerequisite of managerial intelligence and strategic cultural intelligence, which is in demand for interaction and integration processes across social systems.
Professor Gerhard Fink
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien
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This page is a summary of: Affect and cognition, part 2: affect types and mindset types, Kybernetes, January 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/k-07-2017-0263.
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