Talk:Affect display
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The use of this term grew out of a developing understanding on the part of researchers and clinical psychologists that subjects, includingemotionally disturbed ones, could display a mood they were not sincerely feeling (perhaps to win release from anasylum). The use of the term "affect" allows for rigorous accuracy: by noting that a subject displays, for example, "high affect," the observer is not passing judgment on whether the subject is genuinely feeling happiness or not. Given the complexity of humanemotion, it is in any case impossible to define precisely at what point an emotion becomes "genuine." Finally, as a usage note, grammatical convention holds that an individual self-report a "good mood" but never a "good affect." An outside observer can choose to declare that another individual is in a "good mood" (general colloquial usage) or "displays a high affect" (scientific usage).
All human beings, insofar as they live within the bounds ofcultural rules, outwardly display emotions they may not be sincerely feeling. For example, it is considered entirely appropriate for the second-place winner of theMiss America beauty pageant to expresshappiness after the first-place winner is announced, even though the runner-up must surely be feeling onlydisappointment. Very few individuals would call this outward display of happiness to be anything other than goodsportsmanship ormanners. Another key point is that individuals vary tremendously in how much affect they display, depending on individual personality and cultural conventions. It is entirely possible that an individual considered to have borderline pathologicalblunted affect in one culture may be considered merely "serious" in another. Even within a culture, individuals of one city or region may be widely considered to display certain types of emotion, even to an almost continuous degree. Individuals with personality disorders such asHistrionic personality disorder orAntisocial personality disorder are known to often display an insincere affect.
The difference between the externally observable affect and the internal mood has been implicitly accepted in art and indeed, within language itself. The word "giddy," for example, carries within it the connotation that the characterized individual may be displaying a happiness that the speaker/observer believes either insincere or short-living.DCDuring00:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
UnresolvedThe articleAffect referred to a phenomenon that the APA Dictionary of Psychology refers to as affect display. No authoritative source for defining affect in the way the article did could be found. The text above may be usable in whole or in part or as a convenient indicator of the intent of the original Affect article author.DCDuring00:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Someone who cares a lot about this article needs to clean up the citation styles; the article is a confusion and annoying mix of inline[1]-style citations, correct but untemplated Harvard-style referencing, correct and{{Ref harv}}-templated referencing (I think, anyway; I'm pretty sure I saw some in there), and incorrect pseudo-Harvard referencing. Without a really clear reason for using Harvard referencing, inline citations are preferred at Wikipedia, perWP:CITE. And they need to use{{Cite journal}},{{Cite web}}, etc., to provide and consistently format source details.
Even if a clear reason for Harvard style is available, this would still mean that the WP:CITE references need to be converted to Harvard style, and the bogus ones corrected to proper Harvard style, and all of them templated with our Harvard referencing templates instead of being bare text insertions (like(Johnson 1980)), since those provide no reader-useful links to Harvard-style footnotes. —SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]‹(-¿-)›09:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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A merge proposal for this article andEmotional expression is discussed here:Talk:Emotional expression#Merge with Affect display.Lapadite (talk)05:41, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
