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Fear Factors: Panel Examines Fear Research at Individual and Societal Levels
Scientists discuss how individuals and societies are affected when they view the world through the lens of fear characteristic of the news today.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: distress, worry, and responses to the Ebola crisis; anxiety-linked attentional bias and mitigation of threat; and neural underpinnings of repetitive negative thinking in autism spectrum disorders.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring PTSD and autobiographical memories in everyday life and a brief procedure for reactivating fear memories as part of exposure therapy.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring social comparison and achievement in academic settings, the role of the hippocampus in enhanced fear learning in rats, and how emotion influences ensemble coding.
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Why We’re Living in the Age of Fear
Rolling Stone: Jen Senko believes that her father was brainwashed. As Senko, a New York filmmaker, tells it, her father was a “nonpolitical Democrat.” But then he transferred to a new job that required a
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What Do Ghosts Feel?
In a bit of Halloween hilarity, APS Past Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett and humorist Daniel J. Barrett make the case for extending emotion research into the spirit world.