affective

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"Targeting these specific neural circuits could become an effective and more localized strategy to treat affective disorders," Lerma concludes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

Are you in any of the affective areas?

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

The FBI has shared photos of the small drone which on Thursday collided with a plane known as a "Super Scooper", one of the world's most affective firefighting aircrafts, briefly grounding it.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

On top of this endorsement of irony, Berlant also theorized a post-irony characterized by meaningful sincerity, allowing us to patch or bridge the affective conflicts of public life that can’t be resolved through ironic detachment.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

And yet there again, the Neurocase paper I cite above on the prodigious memorizer of 7t describes how the subject’s “self-report indicates that imagining affective situations and high emotional content is critical for successful recall.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith