 When they think of emotion, most people think of discrete emotional episodes, for example, particular experiences of anger, sadness or joy. While these are no doubt important, the realm of emotional phenomena is much broader, something that some theorists capture by talking more generally of “affect” or “affective phenomena”. In addition to particular episodes of emotion, people have emotional dispositions, moods and longer-term emotionally shaped outlooks. For example, someone who is depressed experiences much more than just a single discrete episode of sadness. To be depressed is to view many things through a dark emotional lens that can shape how a person views her life, what she cares about, and what she sees as worth pursuing. 