affective
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The inquest heard that Maria Morris, who worked as a teaching assistant, had bi-polar affective disorder.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
Are you in any of the affective areas?
From BBC • Jul. 30, 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
Brain regions belonging to the affective neural system responded strongly to the sound, again confirming its daunting nature.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 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
Vocabulary lists containing affective
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This Week In Culture: October 5–11, 2019
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Dicey's Song
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