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Affect

"Affect" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Affect" by people in this website by year, and whether "Affect" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 259 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2012
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