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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...