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People with alexithymia also show a limited ability to experience positive emotions leading Krystal [90] and Sifneos (1987) to describe many of these individuals as anhedonic. [15] Alexisomia is a clinical concept that refers to the difficulty in the awareness and expression of somatic, or bodily, sensations. [91]
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 when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage emotions.
A blank expression, also known as a poker face, is a facial expression characterized by neutral positioning of the facial features, implying a lack of strong emotion. It may be caused by emotionlessness, depression , boredom or slight confusion , such as when a listener does not understand what has been said.
Social-emotional agnosia, also known as emotional agnosia or expressive agnosia, is the inability to perceive facial expressions, body language, and voice intonation. [1] A person with this disorder is unable to non-verbally perceive others' emotions in social situations, limiting normal social interactions.
It’s a descriptor for “an inscrutable face that reveals no hint of a person's thoughts or feelings.” Poker face may have helped lend legitimacy to legions of men who ran for office before ...
Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.
Visitors to the Museum of Pop Culture reported that a placard there read “Kurt Cobain unalived himself.” The term, popular on TikTok and increasingly used by young people offline, isn’t ...
Affect displays are the verbal and non-verbal displays of affect (). [1] 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 so one may appear one way, when they feel another (e.g., smiling when sad).