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, is the underlying experience of feeling, emotion, attachment theory, attachment, or Mood (psychology), mood. It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negat ...

, 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 fake ...

, 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, emotionall ...

, 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 som ...

, 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 either verbally or nonverbally, especially w ...

, 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 affect disorder connected to Neurological condition, neurological conditions. It is characterized by brief, intense, uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughter, laughing. The ...

, 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 pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical acce ...

* Affect (company), a defunct Japanese video game developer

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