affectivity

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If you exhibit what psychologists call negative affectivity — where you’re beset by persistently negative emotions — your overall health can suffer.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

Yet they are found frequently in conjunction with the former.The influence of the moon in this moon affectivity is very little known, especially in its psychic overdetermination.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

Nor does he contribute much likely to be of permanent value in any part of the wide domain of affectivity.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund