affective

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Overviews of gestational biology and the postnatal physiologic, cognitive-affective, and behavioral effects of gestational stress identify a shared central role for the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

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  1. adjective Psychology Influenced by or resulting from the emotions.
  2. adjective Psychology Concerned with or arousing feelings or emotions; emotional.

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  • Urza had offered to move his intellectual-affective cortex to a new shell of Thran-metal though the man could not promise Karn's mind would move with it With a sudden roar, the facility erupted into motion Though the forbidden sections of the rig remained dark windows across the rest of it flared with light. —  J
  • Civic religion ensures affective, aesthetic, emotional attachment to a way of living -- a sort of attachment which became suspect in itself to many ascetic modernists -- but which, to judge from the Convention on Modern Liberty, is due for a political comeback. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of playing different types of video games on players 'short-term affective states. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Eventually your immune system will be affective, and other more serious health conditions could arise. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • This is cruel but affective, and the end justifies the means. —  Latest Articles
 

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  1. from Middle Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere, affect: see affect.
 

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/əˈfɛktɪv/
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