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Trying to Hold Down Blue Language on a Red-Letter Day
The New York Times: It’s shaping up to be a darn nice Valentine’s Day in here in Mobile county. An optimistic band of middle school students hopes that for just one day no one in Visit Page
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The Neurology of Schadenfreude
An experiment involving fans of Major League Baseball’s most intense rivals unearths a particularly troubling aspect of finding pleasure in others’ pain. Visit Page
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Anger Makes People Want Things More
Anger is an interesting emotion for psychologists. On the one hand, it’s negative, but then it also has some of the features of positive emotions. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal Visit Page
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Alienated Youths Are More Likely to Lash Out
When people are rejected by peers, they often lash out. In children, that aggression occasionally takes horrifying directions, leading to school shootings or other deadly acts. Researchers in the Netherlands found that some children are Visit Page
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People Who Are Angry Pay More Attention to Rewards Than Threats
Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes people want to seek rewards, according to a new study of emotion and visual attention. The researchers found that people who Visit Page
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Angry Faces: Research Suggests Link Between Facial Structure and Aggression
Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a Visit Page
