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The term Affect generally suggests an emotion. It is used in various ways in various contexts:




The adjective affected is used to describe fake or intentionally assumed behavior, as in affected accent





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The term Affect generally suggests an emotion. It is used in various ways in various contexts:
  • Affect (philosophy)
    Affect (philosophy)

    "Affect" is a concept used in philosophy by Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari. According to Spinoza's Ethics III, 3, Definition 3, an affect is an empowerment, and not a simple change or modification....
    .
  • Affect (psychology)
    Affect (psychology)

    Affect, like the adjective affective, refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. Affect is a key part of the process of an organism?s interaction with stimuli....
    , referring to feeling
    Feeling

    Feeling is the nominalization of to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch either through experience or perception....
     or emotion
    Emotion

    An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
    .
  • Affect display
    Affect display

    In psychology, affect display or affective display is a subject's externally displayed Affect . The display can be by facial, vocal, or gestural means ....
     (psychology) refers to apparent signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture
  • Affective science
    Affective science

    Affective science is the scientific study of emotion or affect. This includes the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience and the recognition of emotions in others....
    , the scientific study of emotion.
  • Any of several terms in abnormal psychology, including.
  • Blunted affect
    Blunted affect

    Blunted affect or flat affect are the scientific terms describing a lack of emotional reactivity on the part of an individual. The precise boundary between the generally positive personality trait "serious" and the generally pathological "blunted affect" is impossible to describe precisely because it is culture specific and relies on su...
     or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity.
  • Labile affect
    Labile affect

    Labile affect or pseudobulbar affect refers to the pathological expression of laughter, crying, or smile. It is also known as emotional lability, pathological laughter and crying, emotional incontinence, or, more recently, involuntary emotional expression disorder ....
    , the unstable display of emotion.


  • Affective computing
    Affective computing

    Affective computing is a branch of the study and development of artificial intelligence that deals with the design of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, and process human emotions....
    , an area of research in computer science aiming to simulate emotional processes.
  • Affekt (the German term, which is often used in this context) in musical and other aesthetic theory. (The article currently redirects to Doctrine of the affections
    Doctrine of the affections

    The doctrine of the affections, also known as the doctrine of affects, or by the German term Affektenlehre was a theory in musical aesthetics popular in the Baroque music ....
    .)
  • Doctrine of the affections
    Doctrine of the affections

    The doctrine of the affections, also known as the doctrine of affects, or by the German term Affektenlehre was a theory in musical aesthetics popular in the Baroque music ....
    , an important theory in musical aesthetics.


The adjective affected is used to describe fake or intentionally assumed behavior, as in affected accent
Accent

Accent may refer to:...
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Please note that although the word "affect" is most commonly found in verb form, it also exists as a noun, and as such is often confused with the word "effect
Effect

Effect, from Latin effectus "performance, accomplishment" can be used in various meanings:* Any result of another action or circumstance ;...
" (itself most commonly a noun, but occasionally found in verb form).