Sentence examples for heightened affect from inspiring English sources

Or, as Dr. Dunbar and his colleagues write, "the sense of heightened affect in this context probably derives from the way laughter triggers endorphin uptake".

But the heightened affect on this occasion owes no small amount to the skill of writing that makes even the passing details count.

It could, for example, acknowledge and describe various and specific states of helplessness, heightened affect, and hyper-vigilance into which people are rendered when they are targeted for being less than manly, or less than desirable to men.

A flat or blunted affect is associated with schizophrenia, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder; heightened affect might suggest mania, and an overly dramatic or exaggerated affect might suggest certain personality disorders.

There is a growing literature that suggests it has utility in predicting in-patient aggression and outcome [ 35] although the findings have been less robust as in-patient aggression may be more associated with heightened affect and active psychotic symptoms in US studies [ 12].

Such an interpretation, inspired by experimental work indicating that increased affective arousal amplifies the punitiveness of responses to wrongdoing (Lerner, Goldberg, and Tetlock 1998), is also available for the Woolfolk et al. study, where the graphic description of the homicide might be expected to heighten affect.

Based on prior research implicating heightened negative affect and amygdala hyperactivity in NSSI, we pursued a systems approach to characterize amygdala functional connectivity networks during rest (resting-state functional connectivity [RSFC ]) and a task (task functional connectivity [TFC]) in adolescents with NSSI.

Intriguingly, whether talented in the sciences or in the arts, students are more likely to experience flow in the arts than in the sciences, and associated with this positive experiential state are heightened positive affect, self-esteem, and intrinsic motivation (Csikszentmihalyi and Schiefele, 1992).

As the analysis of (8) shows, there is a strong co-occurrence of Significance (intense, mounting, changed dramatically, erupted, heightened) and Affect (tension, hostility, humiliation, concerned, fears).

As the wait continued, the plight of those worst affected heightened.

In addition, at least two other Jurassic intervals show heightened faunal turnover affecting mainly marine invertebrates one in Early Jurassic time and another at the end of the period.