It would be sensible to define your terms. Which sense of *imply* would you like us to guess you're using (imply 2. (Logic) to **suggest** or **involve as a necessary consequence** [Collins])? ........................... The best ways to investigate this sort of claim do include looking in decent dictionaries. Compare the first-given (and in a non-historical dictionary, this indicates frequency of this sense being the intended one) definitions for the transitive usage/s at [AHDEL, Collins and RHK Webster's](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/affect): >**affect** > > .1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar. [AHDEL] > > .1. to act upon or influence, esp in an adverse way: damp affected the sparking plugs.[Collins] > > .1. to produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.[RHK Webster's] So there is at least a connotation of a negative (in the sense of adverse) effect. The Collins definition pushes this reasonably close to denotation, but it's probably justifiable to average these analyses to get a general picture. This is doubtless compounded by the most usual sense of the homonym: affect[2] 1. To put on a false show of; simulate [AHDEL] This is not to say that these vibes will be picked up identically by all people, and certainly not in all contexts (The mass of a planet will obviously affect its gravity).