01792nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001000118653000900128653001200137653001800149653003600167653001300203100002300216700002200239245009100261300001200352490000700364520116300371022001401534020001401548       2005                            d  c07/2005bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aAnger10aFear10aarousal10aHedonic Value10aAffective Dimensional Structure10aEmotions1 aM. A. Pérez Nieto1 aH. González Ordi00aThe affective dimensional structure of emotions: A comparative study on anger and fear  a141-1550 v113 aThe study presented in this paper is mainly based on the theoretical framework namely circumplex model of affect put forward by Russell & Feldman Barrett (1999). The aim of the present paper is to study in detail how subjects experience fear and anger in terms of affective dimensions, by presenting two modalities of imaged scenarios: (I) an imagining situation induced by the experimenter, and (2) an imagining situation selected by the subject (free recall) for each emotion. Results showed that subjects scored similar patterns of affective core feelings for both emotions in the modality of free recall. However, there were significant differences between fear and anger for the modality of induced emotions regarding degree of realism and arousal. Anger situation was imaged more realistic than fear one, while anxiety situation scored as more activated than anger one. Our data support the Russell & Feldman Barrett s model with regard to the arousal affective dimension but not in relation to the pleasure affective dimension, due to anger and fear did not reflect significant differences regarding along the pleasant-unpleasant positional dimension.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437