{"id":68472,"date":"2025-11-14T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/flattening-of-the-emotional-response\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:28:31","slug":"flattening-of-the-emotional-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/flattening-of-the-emotional-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattening of the emotional response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(also known as &#8220;flattened affect&#8221;) a decrease in the intensity and range of a person&#8217;s emotional expressions. According to the ICD-10 glossary, &#8220;flattening of emotional response&#8221; is &#8220;a severely reduced or indifferent emotional response. The face and voice are inexpressive and there is no emotional reaction when the topic of conversation changes.&#8221; Flattened affectivity is characteristic of psychopathic personalities, for example, persons with schizoid personality disorder, as well as persons suffering from schizophrenia spectrum disorders.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(also known as &#8220;flattened affect&#8221;) a decrease in the intensity and range of a person&#8217;s emotional expressions. According to the ICD-10 glossary, &#8220;flattening of emotional response&#8221; is &#8220;a severely reduced or indifferent emotional response. The face and voice are inexpressive and there is no emotional reaction when the topic of conversation changes.&#8221; Flattened affectivity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}