expressed emotion

noun 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.
2. countable, uncountable 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).