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Introduction.– Measuring implicit emotional appraisal of self, others, events is important for revealing targets for psychotherapy. Method of color-emotional semantic associations (Kiselnikov et al., 2014) is an alternative to methods assessing reaction time (Emotional Stroop Test, Implicit Attitude Test). It is an experimental procedure based on vector psychophysiological model (Sokolov, 2013) that includes pairwise comparison of semantic-color and color-emotional stimuli and subsequent reconstruction of them on the semantic-emotional two-dimensional sphere. Objectives.– The aim was to study opportunities of the method in people with affective complaints and affective disorders. Methods.– First, 74 students filled Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and 12 with depression, 10 with high anxiety and 10 without complaints participated. Second, we included 7 patients with anxiety disorders, 6 patients with major depression and 13 controls. Results.– Comparing to the 2-factor structure of the appraisal in controls (Valence and Arousal), in anxious and depressive students appraisal of “Me”, “World”, “Present”, “Future” becomes less intensive and the third factor of relatedness to social interactions emerges (Fontaine et al., 2007; Russel, 1991). In anxiety disorders the only factor of emotional sign remains while in depression appraisal of “Me”, “Others” and “Past” becomes closer to sadness, fear and guilt. Conclusions.– Results suggest that in people with affective complaints appraisal intensiveness and social meaning of stimuli should be addressed while for clinical disorders it is important to consider content of emotions. The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project No. 17-29-02169 Disclosure of interest.– The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.