The phrase "affect the mind of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the influence or impact something has on someone's thoughts, feelings, or mental state.
Example: "The novel's themes can profoundly affect the mind of the reader, prompting deep reflection on personal values."
Alternatives: "influence the thoughts of" or "impact the mindset of".
All the same, could his stance filter down and affect the minds of the most hardened homophobes?
Little attention was given to the actual process of education: how events in the classroom affect the minds of the students.
(This, too, is an American tradition: in January of 1777, George Washington, wintering over in New Jersey, warned his troops about an upcoming partial eclipse so that it wouldn't "affect the minds of the Soldiery, and be attended with some bad consequences").
By Antwaun Sargent December 9, 2015 "I wanted to get arrested on my terms and do it in a way that would be thought provoking and affect the minds of the police officers and courts," the performance artist Lech Szporer said.
"I was sitting there counting the tiles, bored as hell, and I was thinking about how I wanted to get arrested on my terms and do it in a way that would be thought provoking and affect the minds of the police officers and courts," Szporer recently told me.
Judge Lumpkin declared: '(A)s jurors have become more capable of exercising their functions intelligently, the Judges both in England and in this country, are struggling constantly to open the door wide as possible * * * to let in all facts calculated to affect the minds of the jury in arriving at a correct conclusion.
Magic skills rely on the use of spells to alter the physical world, to affect the minds of others, to injure and debilitate enemies, to summon monsters to help fight, and to heal wounds.
The word "perps" "affects the mind of every officer" who arrived at the scene that morning, Mr. Hardy said, adding, "They were innocent men".
