affect

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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 emotion
• Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
• Reduced affect display, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
• Pseudobulbar affect, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
• Affect (rhetoric), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition
• Affected accent; see Accent (sociolinguistics)
• Affect (company), a defunct Japanese video game developer