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Weaknesses in Emotion-Expression Research Outlined in New Report
Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for surveillance, hiring, market research, and more. But a report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person’s feelings, behaviors or intentions.
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A Rational Case for Following Your Emotions
In the popular American imagination, emotion and rationality are often mutually exclusive. One is erratic, unpredictable, and often a liability; the other, cool, collected, and absent obvious feeling. And even though research suggests that people
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring memory for repeated images, stability and change in implicit bias, and mixed emotions toward racial out-groups.
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The Worst Form of Envy? In the Future Tense
It is better to be envied than to be pitied, wrote the Greek historian Herodotus, and in our use of social media it’s clear that most of us agree. After all, why post selfies of
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How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion
When Sterling Witt was a teenager in Missouri, he was diagnosed with scoliosis. Before long, the curvature of his spine started causing chronic pain. It was “this low-grade kind of menacing pain that ran through
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Coney Island’s Rides Have Delighted (and Frightened) Us for Decades
In May 1914, Coney Island played host to an unlikely party of VIPs led by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife, Lady Doyle. A New York Times reporter trailed the group all day, hoping
