For others, they have a natural reaction, but it's less distinct than normal yet not as muted as a flat affect is - for example, they may tend to not show much joy, unless they're consciously trying. Technically speaking, it's possible to have a combination of different affects - for some emotions, the person just doesn't have a natural reaction at all. Other affect terms are broad affect, which is what normal people have, restricted affect and constricted affect, which is between broad and blunted, and labile affect means their emotional display is really variable. But unlike someone with a flat affect it doesn't feel to me like there's a definite connotation of having emotion the situation is just unclear. Someone who is expressionless is similar to someone who is impassive, but there seems to me to be less of a connotation of apathy. More likely, you'll just think they're a lot less enthusiastic about something than they are. If a person has a blunted affect, and they're not controlling their emotional display, they will display emotion, but if you're not looking for it, you might miss it. Some of the people I've known who were described as reserved had a blunted affect, which is similar to a flat affect, but not as pronounced. Someone who is reserved is generally self-composed, in my experience.
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It's also not as clear that the impassive person knows how to show the emotion they're feeling, or that they are feeling. I believe impassive and self-composed are similar, but it feels to me like impassive seems stronger - that someone who is self-composed seems more likely to be able to be goaded into an emotional display than someone who is impassive.
Someone who has a practiced facade is very definitely doing it deliberately, and they've spent time making sure they get it right. In any event, the self-composed individual knows how to portray the emotions that aren't being shown. It's my understanding there is a connotation of the latter, however. It could be due to a flat affect or it could be from training. Someone who is self-composed chooses whether or not to express their emotion. Someone who is diffident lacks self-confidence, according to the dictionary definition of the word. Someone who holds to the Stoic philosophy strives to lack joy or grief, rather than just not show it. Someone who is stoic doesn't necessarily hide all of their emotions stoicism is more about persevering without complaint, not particularly seeking pleasure, and taking life as it comes.
On rare occasion, it can be present absent other factors. It can be associated with schizophrenia, depression, brain damage, or autism (I have the latter). That is admittedly two words, but it's the term I've been diagnosed with. If the hiding of emotions was not intentional, then it could be a flat affect.
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