14-03-05 Politicians know that turning on the tears can be a vote winner, but how does the political manipulation of our emotions actually work? Research in Political Psychology explores how emotions such as anxiety, even if their cause has nothing to do wit...
14-01-05 Chests puffing up with pride -- and happiness felt head to toe -- are sensations as real as they are universal. And now we can make an atlas of them. 骄傲感会充满胸膛,幸福感会从头顶灌倒脚底,这种真实的感觉所有人都有体会。而现在我们可以用图谱描绘它...
13-10-15 Researchers studying young bonobos(倭黑猩猩) in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of children, suggesting these great apes regulate their emotions in a human-like w...
13-07-31 片段对白 Sean: Hey, how's it going? Kalani: Well, apart from you stranding us on this stupid island, just fine. Sean: Good. Good. So, hey, I was thinking, you know, sometime we could hang out or something...if you wanted to. Kalani: I have a feeling...
13-05-22 Today I will be master of my emotions. The tides advance; the tides recede. Winter goes and summer comes. summer wanes and the cold increases. The sun rises; the sun sets. The moon is full; the moon is black. The birds arrive; the birds depart. Flow...
12-11-20 In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the unpardonable. I gave the class homework! The assignment was to go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them. It has to be someone you have never said those words to before...
12-05-24 A reader in Florida, apparently bruised(擦伤) by some personal experience, writes in to complain, If I steal a nickel's worth of merchandise, I am a thief and punished; but if I steal the love of another's wife, I am free. This is a prevalent misc...
11-08-17 Facial expressions convey strong cues for someone's emotional state and the ability to interpret(解释,说明) these cues is crucial in social interaction. This ability is known to be compromised in many psychiatric and neurological disorders, such...
11-08-09 It isn't possible to achieve self-discipline without making some progress on those other principles; self discipline requries self-knowledge and an accurate assesssment of your current abilities. Likewise, the other principles can't really be put in...
11-07-06 A big part of coping with life is having a flexible reaction to the ups and downs. Now, a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people choose t...