The brain constantly shifts contextualized goals based on sensory input and semantic factors of meaningfulness, certainty, and agency, with affect management policies describing how individuals pursue or relinquish goals across situations.
Affect attaches to meaningful, contextualized goals shaped by sensory and semantic information, and affect-management policies govern goal pursuit and relinquishment.
Contextualized goals continually update in the brain, shaped by sensory and semantic inputs, and organize affect through shifting affect-management policies.
