expressed emotion

Noun

expressed emotion (countable and uncountable, plural expressed emotions)

1. (uncountable) Negative 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...
2. Used 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...