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Myopic Misery: The Financial Cost of Sadness
Huffington Post: Nobody likes to feel bad. Sadness saps our energy and motivation. Melancholy wrecks our health and invites disease. Misery leaves us — well, miserable. Yet many experts believe that these negative emotions have
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‘Myopic Misery’: The Financial Cost of Sadness
Nobody likes to feel bad. Sadness saps our energy and motivation. Melancholy wrecks our health and invites disease. Misery leaves us—well, miserable. Yet many experts believe that these negative emotions have an upside, that they
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Donate to Help? Only if Nature Caused the Disaster
A series of experiments suggests that people are more likely to donate money to help victims of natural disasters as opposed to human-made catastrophes.
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What You See Affects What You Can Do
The Huffington Post: It is tempting to think of our eyes as video cameras that take in information about the world and try to give us a reasonably accurate picture of what is going on
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Thinking your way to a better life
Chicago Tribune: “Life’s slings and arrows” is Harvard-educated neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson’s phrase for the events we spend our days ducking, sometimes unsuccessfully. Losing out on that promotion. Getting dumped. Navigating a cocktail party of
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Give Affect Science, Get Positive Emotion
A report from the 2012 Science & Engineering Festival WASHINGTON — “Oh, I’m so glad that we found you!” one mother exclaimed as she and her young daughter approached the Affective Science Institute’s booth at
