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emotionally move

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to evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from

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to take on or give a false appearance of

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the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

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connect closely and often incriminatingly

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Patients were rated higher on inappropriate affect (1.1 [+ or -] 0.65) than controls (0.63 [+ or -] 0.37)with a large effect size of 0.92.
These results suggest that the information-theoretic measures of emotion expressions are related to the observer-based ratings and computerized measures may provide quantifiable information on different causes of observed inappropriate affect. Specifically, inappropriateness of expression may result either from ambiguous and inconsistent facial expressions in each emotion regardless of distinctiveness across emotions.
Dimensional information-theoretic measurement of facial emotion expressions in schizophrenia
Inappropriate affect: emotional tone or outward reaction out of harmony with the idea, object, or thought accompanying it.
Schizophrenia
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