affects are analogues of their stimulus conditions

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    • Secondary as trigger for primary by (No author), 9/22/98
      
      

Each innate affect is both an analogue of its stimulus conditions and (because it makes the event so much more noticeable) an amplifier of that stimulus. Therefore, no matter how an affect is triggered it is capable of triggering more of the same affect. So no matter how shame affect is triggered, it makes more of itself in a recursive loop.

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