AFFECT

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

★ Affect (philosophy).

★ Affect (psychology), a term used in psychological analysis.

★ Affect (sociology) or social affect theory [1].

★ Affective science, the scientific study of emotion.

★ Any of several terms in abnormal psychology, including.
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★ Blunted affect or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity.
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★ Labile affect, the unstable display of emotion.

★ Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to simulate emotional processes.

★ Literary affects, the emotional experience generated in a reader by a text, such as catharsis kairosis and kenosis.

★ 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, an important theory in musical aesthetics.