expressed emotion

plural expressed emotions

1. uncountablehuman sciencesNegative or hostile attitudes expressed towards a person affected by mental illness by their family.

   High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse.

   2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, volume 3, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1

2. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see expressed, emotion.

   Social media research has shown that expressed emotions are propagated among social media users (e.g., Coviello et al., 2014; Kramer et al., 2014).

   2022 December 8, Eric Mayor, Marcel Miché, Roselind Lieb, “Associations between emotions expressed in internet news and subsequent emotional content on twitter”, in Heliyon, Cambridge, M.A.: Cell Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 2, column 2