Question

Ben ervin often experiences emotions in a much stronger manner than most of his other colleagues. events that do not provoke any significant emotional response from another person, send him into fits of happiness, anger, or depression. in view of such a situation, ervin is displaying a high level of ________.

Answer 1

The answer is affect intensity.

Affect intensity is a characteristic that displays how much an individual responds emotionally to a stimulus. So for example an individual with low affect intensity will have emotional responses that are weaker in strength to a strongly emotional stimulus and vice versa in an individual with high affect intensity as in the example with Ben.