Affect
"Affect" is as an action or verb,
affect means
to change, and usually refers to an emotion or symptom.
Affected, when used in a description, refers to fake or intentionally assumed behavior, i.e., an
affected accent. Affect can refer to facial expression or demeanor. As a noun, "affect" may refer to an emotion or to a psychological/psychiatric state. As an adjective, it may refer to an assumed pretense: "Her affected accent really had an effect on me"; "Her affected* accent really affected* my view of her".. Affect may refer to: ▪ Affect ▪ Affect ▪ Blunted affect or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity. ▪ Labile affect, the unstable display of emotion. ▪ Affect display, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture ▪ Affective science, the scientific study of emotion ▪ Affect, the grammar of expressing affect ▪ Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users ▪ Affekt, a German term often used in musical and other aesthetic theory ▪ Doctrine of the affections, an important theory in the aesthetics of music...