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Traumatic Experiences May Make You Tough
Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can be psychologically damaging, small amounts of trauma may
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What Are Emotion Expressions For?
That cartoon scary face – wide eyes, ready to run – may have helped our primate ancestors survive in a dangerous wild, according to the authors of an article published in Current Directions in Psychological
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Grumpy old gorilla apes aging human males
The Globe and Mail: “For the past 100 years or so, psychologists have supported the notion that all humans have the same set of basic biological emotions,” says Psych Central News. “But a new paper
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The Ability to Love Takes Root in Earliest Infancy
The ability to trust, love, and resolve conflict with loved ones starts in childhood—way earlier than you may think. That is one message of a new review of the literature in Current Directions in Psychological
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Was Darwin Wrong About Emotions?
Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically “basic” emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on the faces of those around us, according to
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¿Por qué no somos ya más inteligentes?: los perjuicios de tener una supermente
ABC Espana: Los seres humanos nos esforzamos en mejorar nuestra memoria, inteligencia y atención de múltiples maneras, desde tomar una taza de café que nos despeje la mente hasta consumir medicamentos psicoestimulantes. Pero quizás, aunque
