Emotion

• Emotion is a complex feeling state related to mood and affect with psychic, somatic, and behavioral components.
• Affect is the expression or outward manifestation of emotion observable to others.
• Appropriate affect is a normal condition wherein emotional tone is in harmony or is consistent with the accompanying thought, idea, or speech.
• InAppropriate affect is also described as broad or full affect wherein a full range of emotions is appropriately expressed.
• Inappropriate affect is inconsistency between the emotional tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it.
• Blunted affect is characterized by a severe reduction in the intensity of the externalized feeling tone.
• Restricted or constricted affect is a reduction in the intensity of feeling tone, less severe than blunted affect.
• Flat affect is the absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression, characterized by an immobile face and a monotonous voice.
• Labile affect is characterized by rapid and abrupt changes in the emotional feeling tone which is unrelated to an external stimuli.