Sentence examples for Flat affect from inspiring English sources

The phrase "Flat affect" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in psychological or medical contexts to describe a lack of emotional expression. Example: "The patient exhibited flat affect during the evaluation, showing little to no emotional response to the questions asked."

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Flat affect

noun

Lack of emotion.

  • After the crash he presented a flat affect, a symptom of PTSD.

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Flat affect is when someone's voice is monotone, their face is expressionless, and their body is motionless.

Flat affect may stem in part from disturbances in parietal/STS systems that participate in the perception and reaction to emotional gestures or cues (or deficits in "mirroring" other's emotional states).

He had a flat affect and an arid wit, and did not open up right away.

"The flat affect you saw today is part of his mental condition," Ms. McCann said.

Former classmates here described him as nervous, with a flat affect.

Ms. Harris's flat affect and convincing sophistication are an antidote to the tone-deaf goofing on display elsewhere.

The frontman Robbie Furze sang it with a disarmingly flat affect, delivering it as the ramble of a neurotic.

Might this relatively bland conviction explain the flat affect of Mamet's direction of his hit play "Race"?

She is not opposed to the use of educational technology, but she objects to the flat affect of ASSISTments.

The flat affect of the bereaved becomes too much of a monotone by the time the last (and best) piece rolls around.

Beth sings in an almost full voice, but with a flat affect, "I am here and there at the same time.

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