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Investigating Emotional Spillover in the Brain
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are discovering what happens in the brain when emotions from one event carry over to the next.
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The Making Of Emotions, From Pleasurable Fear To Bittersweet Relief
NPR: Emotions, the classic thinking goes, are innate, basic parts of our humanity. We are born with them, and when things happen to us, our emotions wash over us. “They happen to us, almost,” says
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The things dying people care about reveal a lot about how to live
Quartz: Ask people to imagine what they’d say if they knew they were dying and most would have words of sadness, fear, and regret. But new psychological research bolsters what chaplains, hospice workers, and others
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How Our Bodies Do – and Don’t – Shape Our Minds
Individuals’ bodies and their abilities to act within their environments shape their perceptions of their surroundings, says psychological scientist Jessica Witt, Colorado State University. Witt discussed the psychophysics experiments she’s conducted to demonstrate these perceptions during one of four presentations in a Presidential Symposium chaired by Susan Goldin-Meadow.
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Health Buzz: Why Being Mean to People Might Actually Help Them in the Future
U.S. News & World Report: Being mean to someone isn’t typically seen as something to be proud of – but what if you were doing it in order to help someone else? Though a roundabout
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring idiopathic environmental intolerance, cognitive reappraisal as an intervention strategy with traumatized refugees, and suicide risk within the Research Domain Criteria framework.
