Talk:Affect

This doesn't seem like a dab page to me at this point. Thoughts? Tedernst | talk 21:27, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I've pruned out the dicdefs and other irrelevent entries, including:

• Although not the mainstream usage, psychologist Edward Titchener used the word 'affect' in more specific way, to refer to a pleasantness-unpleasantness dimension of feeling.

• Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to simulate emotional processes, or make use of human emotion in human-computer interaction, derives its name from this word in the same way.

• In Linguistics, affect refers to the emotional tone of a text or an utterance. "Affective displays" are one of the five categories of kinesics.

• • In psychology, affect is an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling, or the involvement of such processes in a psychological system or theory. Contrast with mood, which is more sustained.

• Affective science is the scientific study of emotion.

• In abnormal psychology, affect can also refer to emotional expressiveness. Flat affect, constricted affect or restricted affect is a lack of emotional expression. Blunted affect is the incapacity to be aware of the emotional circumstances of other people. Inappropriate affect or incongruous affect is a mismatch between experienced emotion and its expression. Labile affect is unstable display of emotion. Shallow affect is emotion displayed for manipulating others and is not really felt.

This leaves one (dodgey) entry. Maybe some of the above can be put back in (following the MoS of course)? If the remaining entry is considered superfluous, then a soft redirect may be implemented, as was done with Where.--Commander Keane 18:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that's the correct solution for this page, I've went ahead and made the edit. Thanks/wangi 00:14, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I am restoring a lot of this material. It needs work, but affect is used in a non-obvious sense by psychologists and psychiatrists. Smerdis of Tlön 22:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Do any of the entries you have restored help readers to get to a Wikipedia aritcle?--Commander Keane 23:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Some do; others point out articles that have yet to be written. More importantly: if you think that the contents of the page should be deleted, I would take it up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion rather than simply blanking the page in any case. Do that, and I will happily abide by any consensus reached there. -- Smerdis of Tlön 00:05, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Do any of the entries you have restored help readers to get to a Wikipedia aritcle? Perhaps I'm blind. Can you point me to any entries that should go on this page? Keep in mind that a dab is not a list of articles sharing a common word.--Commander Keane 00:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

They are pretty much all things that should be referenced any time someone feels the need to link the word affect: it is used as jargon in a number of fields, mostly related to psychology and psychiatry, in a way so that its meaning is not obvious to someone who just knows its general definition. Take a look at what links to the page for a sample; most of them seem to relate to the arts or psychiatry, and this page stands to point them to more specific articles. Smerdis of Tlön 01:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the "Whatlinkshere". The thing is, no articles actually exist to point readers to about these other meanings. I guess you are saying that these articles need to be created, I can live with that.--Commander Keane 02:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

"to affect refers to the influence a change has on something else"... What? In an article explaining often confused grammar, we must take are to use correct and clear grammar. Why work this sentence in the opening paragraph so awkwardly? Should this read "to affect refers to the influence a change has" or "to affect refers to the influence a change has on something"? Why say "something ELSE"? This implies 2 things are being changes, 1 "main thing", and a 2nd thing being changed "something ELSE". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.148.244.43 (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

AFFECT

You may consider adding AFFECT (Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions) to the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.238.76 (talk) 13:59, 17 June 2008 (UTC)