Talk:Affect display

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The use of this term grew out of a developing understanding on the part of researchers and clinical psychologists that subjects, including emotionally disturbed ones, could display a mood they were not sincerely feeling (perhaps to win release from an asylum). The use of the term "affect" allows for rigorous accuracy: by noting that a subject displays, for example, "high affect," the observer is not passing judgment on whether the subject is genuinely feeling happiness or not. Given the complexity of human emotion, it is in any case impossible to define precisely at what point an emotion becomes "genuine." Finally, as a usage note, grammatical convention holds that an individual self-report a "good mood" but never a "good affect." An outside observer can choose to declare that another individual is in a "good mood" (general colloquial usage) or "displays a high affect" (scientific usage).

All human beings, insofar as they live within the bounds of cultural rules, outwardly display emotions they may not be sincerely feeling. For example, it is considered entirely appropriate for the second-place winner of the Miss America beauty pageant to express happiness after the first-place winner is announced, even though the runner-up must surely be feeling only disappointment. Very few individuals would call this outward display of happiness to be anything other than good sportsmanship or manners. Another key point is that individuals vary tremendously in how much affect they display, depending on individual personality and cultural conventions. It is entirely possible that an individual considered to have borderline pathological blunted affect in one culture may be considered merely "serious" in another. Even within a culture, individuals of one city or region may be widely considered to display certain types of emotion, even to an almost continuous degree. Individuals with personality disorders such as Histrionic personality disorder or Antisocial personality disorder are known to often display an insincere affect.

The difference between the externally observable affect and the internal mood has been implicitly accepted in art and indeed, within language itself. The word "giddy," for example, carries within it the connotation that the characterized individual may be displaying a happiness that the speaker/observer believes either insincere or short-living. DCDuring 00:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: Affect is now a (remarkably well-developed) disambiguation page; the article referred to above now lives at Affect (psychology). —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 09:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Note on copy of text from Affect
The article Affect referred to a phenomenon that the APA Dictionary of Psychology refers to as affect display. No authoritative source for defining affect in the way the article did could be found. The text above may be usable in whole or in part or as a convenient indicator of the intent of the original Affect article author. DCDuring 00:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Has this been resolved yet? —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 09:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Citation cleanup
Someone who cares a lot about this article needs to clean up the citation styles; the article is a confusion and annoying mix of inline &#91;1&#93;-style citations, correct but untemplated Harvard-style referencing, correct and Ref harv-templated referencing (I think, anyway; I'm pretty sure I saw some in there), and incorrect pseudo-Harvard referencing. Without a really clear reason for using Harvard referencing, inline citations are preferred at Wikipedia, per WP:CITE. And they need to use Cite journal, Cite web, etc., to provide and consistently format source details.

Even if a clear reason for Harvard style is available, this would still mean that the WP:CITE references need to be converted to Harvard style, and the bogus ones corrected to proper Harvard style, and all of them templated with our Harvard referencing templates instead of being bare text insertions (like ), since those provide no reader-useful links to Harvard-style footnotes. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 09:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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Merge with Emotional expression
A merge proposal for this article and Emotional expression is discussed here: Talk:Emotional expression. Lapadite (talk) 05:41, 30 June 2023 (UTC)