Affect

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Affect may refer to:

  • Affect (education)
  • Affect (linguistics), attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance
  • Affect (philosophy)
  • Affect (psychology), the experience of feeling or emotion
    • Affect display, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture
    • Affect theory
    • Affective science, the scientific study of emotion
    • Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
    • Reduced affect display, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
    • Pseudobulbar affect, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
  • Affect (rhetoric), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition
  • Affected accent; see Accent (sociolinguistics)
  • Affect (company), a defunct Japanese video game developer

See also

  • Affection (disambiguation)
  • Affekt, a German term used in the doctrine of the affections, a theory in the aesthetics of music
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  • Effect (disambiguation)
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