How to Use affective in a Sentence

affective

adjective
Definition of affectivenext
  • Not only would the world lose out on a few great laughs, but under the right circumstances, humor can be quite affective.
    — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But there is good news from research in affective science, also known as the study of emotions.
    — Philly.com, 4 June 2018
  • In goes the good desk chair from the office, and a seasonal-affective-disorder lamp.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The title track, which opens the album, channels that anger in a subtler, but no less affective, manner.
    — Jeff Gage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In these clips, actors expressed a wide range of emotions in their face, voice and body language, and participants were asked to identify the affective state of the actors.
    — Julia Lee, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Oddly, though, in the end, Melania Trump’s speech proved powerful and moving, not in spite of all its tonal and affective contradictions, but because of them.
    — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Cognitive bias refers to one's thought processes (affective, which refers to the strength of an emotion or feeling toward something).
    — Daniel Fallmann, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • There is an ineluctable emotional stamp on the incipit of just about all of Brahms’ mature chamber works — the opening seconds set an affective tone that can last the entire piece.
    — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • My daily affective state is one of great despair about the incredible destructive forces at work in this world — not only at the level of climate.
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers are even proposing a separate name for the condition: TBI affective syndrome.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 5 July 2023
  • Various measures of affective polarization have shown that over the past 60 years, it’s gotten much worse.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Kastner and Lee were artful in their ability to highlight subtle affective details, making the most of the unique quality of each movement.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • The hallmarks of a National song — wry, affective lyrics; earthquake-proof song structures; painterly arrangements — seem tailor-built to sound more graceful with age.
    — Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Such sweeping, affective observations are key to Fukuyama’s style, which spurns data-heavy economics in favor of lofty arguments on the plane of ideas.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
  • As these models continue to evolve, affective computing must evolve too.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Insisting that an affective machine should somehow work like a fact-checking machine is absurd.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The causes of affective and other forms of polarization are the subject of considerable debate.
    — Daniel Kreiss, Wired, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The answer seems simple, yet a vigorous debate concerning its meaning has been playing out over the vista of affective neuroscience.
    — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The resulting narrative is something like an affective history of the British Empire.
    — Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The point is not to grapple with the reality of a complex, overwhelming situation that changes every day, about which there can be genuine debates, but to reinscribe it in affective terms.
    — Matthew Sitman, The New Republic, 21 May 2020
  • There is substantial evidence that emotions and affective states play a key role in advertising.
    — Nazanin Andalibi, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The third blog explored AI emotion sensors and the impact that the affective computing market is having on the transportation and logistics industry.
    — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But the reasons can also involve a subconscious, affective attachment to specific archetypes and myths.
    — The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • That's because, once again, people embrace the stories for their affective power, not for their ability to win the support of specialists flaunting their expertise.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Each film channels the gaze of an amateur—which is to say, a gaze tuned like a radio channel to the affective nuances of daily living: amusement, awkwardness, delight, and the extravagant devotion of love.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Jorge Cotte, way back in the show’s first season, suggested that its nauseating aesthetic was meant to produce a uniquely negative affective attachment to the show.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • Autism today is considered a form of neurodiversity, and many parents have come to discover that their children have their own affective needs and their own ways of relating.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But while relationship and life satisfaction go down, something called affective well-being goes up.
    — Garth Sundem, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2012
  • The most emotionally affective writing in this collection, in fact, comes from one of its longest entries: a recollection of the author’s father, written during a trip on the 5,772-mile Trans-Siberian Railway.
    — Tom Zoellner, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • One, known as affective polarization, measures how much people of one party dislike members of the opposite party.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020

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