FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 12, 2023·3 min readHow Creativity Is Possible Despite FrustrationPeople can unlock their creative potential and enhance their creativity by embracing frustration and using it as a tool to inspire new methods and ideas.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 8, 2023·4 min readHow Parents Feel About Feelings Can Deeply Affect a Child’s DevelopmentHow parents express and process their emotions can have an impact on their child's emotional and social development, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 1, 2023·5 min readHappy Songs: These Are the Musical Elements That Make Us Feel GoodListening to your favorite music has a positive effect on your emotional and psychological health. Researchers say music impacts the endocrine system, increasing levels of dopamine and decreasing the stress-associated hormone, cortisol.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 28, 2023·6 min readThe Relationship Between Humans and Stress? It’s ComplicatedEmotional response to stress changes and reduces as we age. However, stress can accelerate body aging and negatively impact our overall health.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 27, 2023·3 min readArt Evokes Feelings in the BodyA new study investigates how viewing visual art affects our emotions. The findings reveal how the aesthetic experience can impact the body's emotional response.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 25, 2023·5 min readInteractive Cinema: Viewer’s Emotional Response Changes Movie’s StorylineA new movie adapts and changes its story based on the viewer's emotional response.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 24, 2023·5 min readHidden Danger: Parental Guilt and Depression During Child’s Infancy can Impact Adolescent Emotional DevelopmentWhen a parent experiences guilt as a symptom of depression while their child is an infant, it can trigger depression in the other parent and ultimately impact the child's emotional development.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 23, 2023·3 min readOxytocin Plays a Role in the Most Basic Form of EmpathyStudy reveals how the "love hormone" oxytocin plays a critical role in the formation of emotional contagion.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 14, 2023·4 min readDetecting Hidden Brain States With Mathematical ModelsUsing a mathematical model to study how the brain predicts information and learns, researchers discovered signals for accuracy are found in the anterior insula and anxiety affects activity levels in this brain region.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 13, 2023·3 min readDoes Aging Change the Way We Interpret Face Processing of Emotion?Aging may hamper the neural processing of emotions conveyed via facial expressions.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 10, 2023·4 min readWhy Does Music Bring Back Memories?Certain songs can help us reconnect with self-defining moments from earlier times, researchers report. Music that draws our attention also helps us to encode memories that are key to certain life events.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 9, 2023·3 min readHow Swearing Gets Its Power to Elicit Emotional ResponsesResearchers say profanity is a more powerful and entirely different form of communication, evoking differences in emotion, compared to regular language use.Read More
