Blunted affect is a decreased ability to express emotion through your facial expressions, tone of voice, and physical movements. Certain diseases and disorders are all linked to this condition. Share ...

Affect is a positive-to-negative feeling in consciousness, and there is fierce debate about exactly what it is. This post summarizes the current state of the debate.

Affect vs. effect: What's the difference? These two commonly confused words have distinct meanings—affect is usually a verb, meaning to influence or change, while effect is typically a noun, referring ...

In psychology, your "affect" refers to how you portray emotions – through gestures, your tone of voice, facial expressions, and the like. If you’re happy or upset, people usually can see it on your ...

We live in a time when “resting bitch face” is a joke, selfies are constant, and activist art implores us to stop telling women to smile: We’re as aware of our faces as ever. But the conversation ...

With all the controversy surrounding DSM-V including the NIMH’s promise to stop funding research based on its categories, it might be a useful time to start reconsidering how we think of ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) has been called many different things, including involuntary emotional expression disorder, emotional lability, pathological laughter and crying, emotional dysregulation, and ...

Emotions can influence how well you remember events. Strong emotions can potentially sharpen your focus on key details, while stress can affect both memory storage and recall. Your emotional state can ...

In October, 2011, the literary scholar and cultural theorist Lauren Berlant published “Cruel Optimism,” a meditation on our attachment to dreams that we know are destined to be dashed. Berlant had ...