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v. t. e. Affect, in psychology, is the underlying experience of feeling, emotion, attachment, or mood. [1] It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negative (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, disgust). Affect is a fundamental aspect of human experience and plays a central role in many ...
Grandiose delusions ( GDs ), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, [1] are a subtype of delusion characterized by extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful. Grandiose delusions often have a religious, science fictional, or supernatural theme. Examples include the extraordinary ...
The mental status examination (MSE) is an important part of the clinical assessment process in neurological and psychiatric practice. It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's psychological functioning at a given point in time, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and ...
Specialty. Psychiatry. Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder [1] [2] defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." [3] During a manic episode, an individual will ...
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 manifestations. The conversation about affect theory has been taken up in psychology, psychoanalysis ...
Affect measures ( measures of affect or measures of emotion) are used in the study of human affect (including emotions and mood ), and refer to measures obtained from self-report studies asking participants to quantify their current feelings or average feelings over a longer period of time. Even though some affect measures contain variations ...
Affect displays are the verbal and non-verbal displays of affect ( emotion ). [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).
Affect consciousness. Affect consciousness (or affect integration - a more generic term for the same phenomenon) [1] refers to an individual's ability to consciously perceive, tolerate, reflect upon, and express affects. [2] [3] These four abilities are operationalized as degrees of awareness, tolerance, emotional (nonverbal) expression, and ...