# Affect

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**Affect** may refer to:

- [Affect (education)](/source/Affect_(education))
- [Affect (linguistics)](/source/Affect_(linguistics)), attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance
- [Affect (philosophy)](/source/Affect_(philosophy))
- [Affect (psychology)](/source/Affect_(psychology)), the experience of feeling or emotion - [Affect display](/source/Affect_display), signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture - [Affect theory](/source/Affect_theory) - [Affective science](/source/Affective_science), the scientific study of emotion - [Affective computing](/source/Affective_computing), an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users - [Reduced affect display](/source/Reduced_affect_display), a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity - [Pseudobulbar affect](/source/Pseudobulbar_affect), a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
- [Affect (rhetoric)](/source/Affect_(rhetoric)), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition
- Affected accent; see [Accent (sociolinguistics)](/source/Accent_(sociolinguistics))
- [Affect (company)](/source/Affect_(company)), a defunct Japanese video game developer

## See also

- [Affection (disambiguation)](/source/Affection_(disambiguation))
- *Affekt*, a German term used in the [doctrine of the affections](/source/Doctrine_of_the_affections), a theory in the aesthetics of music
- ... (sorted)
- ... (unsorted)
- [Effect (disambiguation)](/source/Effect_(disambiguation))

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