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Transmission of Affect
Life-affirming and Life-draining Affects
From: The Power Manual
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Transmission of Affect, focuses on the work of Theresa Brennan. Brennan used research from the field of psychoneuroendocrinology, the study of hormones and their relationship to behavior, to reveal how our hormones act on each other during interactions. This is called affect. The book focuses on what affect is and how it works, but to me, the most important contribution is the main point of chapter 3 — whether it is done consciously or unconsciously, the typical interaction between a dominant and a subordinate is one in which the dominant offloads anxiety and the subordinate uploads that anxiety. Finally, Brennan offers that a key way to resist negative affect is through the classical virtues — courage, prudence, temperance, justice, hope, faith, and love — which she defines in relationship to affect and as something that is practiced in interactions.
Contributors
Cyndi Suarez
Cyndi Suarez works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives. She helps social change leaders move from struggle to flow by helping them build elegant ideas and structures. She has a MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.
