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·December 17, 2021·4 min read

Rollercoaster of Emotions: Exploring Emotions With Virtual Reality

A virtual rollercoaster ride in combination with EEG helped researchers determine how emotions are processed in the brain.

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·December 8, 2021·3 min read

Ways to Help Children Learn Forgiveness

Children are more likely to forgive wrongdoers who apologize, especially if the offender is in their "in-group", and the upset child possesses advanced Theory of Mind skills.

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·December 7, 2021·5 min read

How Do Others Help Us Regulate Emotions?

While interpersonal emotional regulation appears to be ubiquitous and the people we reach out to are often supportive, they may not always provide the emotional support we are looking for.

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·December 5, 2021·4 min read

Studies of Children’s Stories Shows Differences in Russian and U.S. Approaches to Emotion

Russian children's books focus more heavily on negative human emotions, such as anger, sadness, and fear than books US parents are likely to expose their young children to.

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·December 3, 2021·4 min read

Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?

Wisdom is strongly and positively associated with resilience, happiness, and mental well-being, and negatively correlated with loneliness, depression, and anxiety.

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·November 30, 2021·4 min read

Controlling Brain Circuits, Behavior, and Emotion Using Light

A newly developed system dubbed Opto-vTrap can temporarily trap vesicles from being released from brain cells.

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·November 29, 2021·5 min read

AI Studies the Emotions Aroused by Music, and Our Way of Perceiving Them

A new AI algorithm recognizes the complex range of emotions invoked when people listen to pieces of music.

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·November 28, 2021·3 min read

Why Some People Find It Harder to Be Happy

50% of a person's happiness is determined by their genetic makeup, researchers discovered. A new study considers the roles both nature and nurture play in a person's happiness.

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·November 18, 2021·5 min read

The Brain Uses Bodily Signals to Regulate Fear

Study reveals how the brain relies on feedback from the body to regulate fear response. When a mouse's body freezes in response to fear, its heart rate slows, and this leads to attenuated insular cortex activity.

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·November 17, 2021·4 min read

Why Sad Songs Make Us Feel Good

Researchers explore the psychological and neurobiological basis of why listening to sad music often makes us feel good and lifts our spirits.

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·November 17, 2021·6 min read

How Grandmothers’ Brains React to the Sight of Their Grandchildren

Brain scans of grandmothers taken when viewing photos of their grandchildren revealed greater activation in brain areas associated with emotional empathy, suggesting grandmothers are geared towards feeling what their grandchild is feeling when interacting with them. By contrast, when viewing images of their adult children, brain areas associated with cognitive empathy become activated.

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·November 2, 2021·4 min read

New Tool Assesses How Well People Read Kids’ Emotions

Researchers have developed a new tool, dubbed PerCEIVED Task, which assesses how accurately people can recognize specific emotions in elementary school-aged children.