Is the outside unaligned with what you feel inside? Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Inappropriate affect occurs when emotions expressed don't match the situation. It can result from brain damage ...

In psychology, your "affect" refers to how you portray emotions – through gestures, your tone of voice, facial expressions, and the like. If you’re happy or upset, people usually can see it on your ...

Affect is a positive-to-negative experience in consciousness that has eluded a consensus understanding within psychology and neuroscience. The contemporary neuroscience perspectives of predictive ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) has been called many different things, including involuntary emotional expression disorder, emotional lability, pathological laughter and crying, emotional dysregulation, and ...

In October, 2011, the literary scholar and cultural theorist Lauren Berlant published “Cruel Optimism,” a meditation on our attachment to dreams that we know are destined to be dashed. Berlant had ...

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?” —Leo Tolstoy Languages reveal their true colors—from their glory to their limits—whenever we rely on them to articulate emotions. Streams ...

Every year, thousands of people travel to high-altitude environments for tourism, adventure-seeking, or to train and compete in various sports. Unfortunately, these trips can be marred by the effects ...