
However, other psychological researchers assume that neutral emotions exist. The existence of at least temporarily unspecified valence is an issue for psychological researchers who reject the existence of neutral emotions (e.g. Valence is an inferred criterion from instinctively generated emotions it is the property specifying whether feelings/affects are positive, negative or neutral. The term chemical valence has been used in physics and chemistry to describe the mechanism by which atoms bind to one another since the nineteenth century. subject and object) to form a complete sentence. The original German word suggests "binding," and is commonly used in a grammatical context to describe the ability of one word to semantically and syntactically link another, especially the ability of a verb to require a number of additional terms (e.g. The use of the term in psychology entered English with the translation from German ("Valenz") in 1935 of works of Kurt Lewin. ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
