affective
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"We don't know if glutathione is affective," said Sean DeCrane, the assistant to the general president for health and safety at the IAFF, which represents over 360,000 firefighters across the US and Canada.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The first theory traces back to the same underlying factor that causes the stock market to perform poorly in September: a big uptick in seasonal affective disorder.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
“In order to fully hijack your ability to reason, I need to parasitize both your cognitive or thinking system, as well as your emotional affective system.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Participants with schizophrenia also consumed more coffee on average than participants with affective disorders.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
And yet there again, the Neurocase paper I cite above on the prodigious memorizer of 7t describes how the subject’s “self-report indicates that imagining affective situations and high emotional content is critical for successful recall.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing affective
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 7
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This Week In Culture: October 5–11, 2019
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Dicey's Song
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