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af·fect
/əˈfek(t)/verb
- 1. have an effect on; make a difference to: "the dampness began to affect my health"
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In psychology, "affect" refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negative (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, disgust). Affect is a fundamental aspect of human experience and plays a central role in many psychological theories and studies.
Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manifestations.
Affect (from Latin affectus or adfectus) is a concept, used in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and elaborated by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, that places emphasis on bodily or embodied experience. The word affect takes on a different meaning in psychology and other fields.
In linguistics, affect is an attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance.
The affect heuristic is a heuristic, a mental shortcut that allows people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, in which current emotion—fear, pleasure, surprise, etc.—influences decisions.
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Affect displays are the verbal and non-verbal displays of affect . These displays can be through facial expressions , gestures and body language , volume and tone of voice , laughing , crying , etc. Affect displays can be altered or faked so one may appear one way, when they feel another (e.g., smiling when sad).
Affect measures (measures of affect or measures of emotion) are used in the study of human affect (including emotions and mood), and refer to measures obtained from self-report studies asking participants to quantify their current feelings or average feelings over a longer period of time.
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 ...
Affect, as a term of rhetoric, is the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition.
Affect consciousness (or affect integration - a more generic term for the same phenomenon) refers to an individual's ability to consciously perceive, tolerate, reflect upon, and express affects.