Affective misattribution

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Chapter 2 endnote 10, from How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context is:

My experience in the coffee shop, where I felt attraction when I had the flu, would be called an error or misattribution in the classical view, but it’s no more a mistake than seeing a bee in a bunch of blobs.

Scientists call this phenomenon affective misattribution. Close cousins are affect as information and affective realism.

You know a concept is important when it has be discovered over and over again by different scientists and given various names.