“…Different researchers have tackled the subject of affectivity (García Aretio, 2002, Almeida & Mahoney, 2007Gaspar & Costa, 2011;Silva & Figueiredo, 2012;Souza, Petroni, & Andrada, 2013;Mendes, Santos, Tenório, & Tenório, 2015) although the literature is still incipient as regards affectivity in conflict mediation in VLEs (Azevedo et al, 2014;Mülbert, Girondi, Pereira, & Nakayama, 2013;Costa, 2015). Affective aspects in the teaching-learning process have been discussed by Almeida and Mahoney (2007).…”