Affect may refer to: *

Affect (education) In education, affect is broadly defined as the attitudes, emotions, and values present in an educational environment. The two main types of affect are professional affect and student affect. Professional affect refers to the emotions and values pre ...

Affect (linguistics) In linguistics, affect is an attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance. Affects such as sarcasm, contempt, dismissal, distaste, disgust, disbelief, exasperation, boredom, anger, joy, respect or disrespect, sympathy, pity, gratitu ...

, attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance *

Affect (philosophy) 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 ta ...

Affect (psychology) Affect, in psychology, refers to the underlying experience of feeling, emotion or mood. History The modern conception of affect developed in the 19th century with Wilhelm Wundt. The word comes from the German ''Gefühl'', meaning "feeling." ...

, the experience of feeling or emotion **

Affect display Affect displays are the verbal and non-verbal displays of affect (emotion). 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 s ...

, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture **

Affect theory 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 manife ...

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. Of particular relevance are the nature of feeling, mood, emotionally ...

, the scientific study of emotion **

Affective computing Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. While some ...

, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users **

Reduced affect display Reduced affect display, sometimes referred to as emotional blunting or emotional numbing, is a condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings ( affect display) either verbally or nonverba ...

, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity **

Pseudobulbar affect Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), or emotional incontinence, is a type of emotional disturbance characterized by uncontrollable episodes of crying, laughing, anger or other emotional displays. PBA occurs secondary to a neurologic disorder or brain inj ...

, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion * Affect (rhetoric), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition * Affected accent; see

Accent (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of Pronunciation, pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, Region, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regiona ...

Affect (company) Affect Co., Ltd. (株式会社アフェクト) was a video game development company that was active in that industry from 1990 to 2008, primarily releasing games in Japan through other publishers. One of the first products developed by the compan ...

, a defunct Japanese video game developer

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