Affect (Collection: Mental Health )

As used in mental health, the term 'Affect' refers to the display of emotion, and more specifically, the display of facial signs of emotion. Affect thus describes what a person's mood looks like. Affect is different than Mood - which is the term used to describe a person's subjective report of how they feel. A person's affect and mood are fairly independent of each other; they can be the same or different.

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