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A combination of modern methods for regulating emotions and ancient meditation practices appears to be very effective for boosting the emotional lives, compassion and calmness levels, in teachers.
Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) found that this approach reduces depression, anxiety... |
29 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Apparently, you can actually suffer from a broken heart following a breakup, at least according to a new study. The paper explores the connection between social pain and physical pain, and finds that the link is a lot stronger than anyone thought. Dr. Naomi Eisenberger, the author of the paper, believes that one of t... |
23 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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The human brain is known to take deep pleasure from caresses. Researchers can notice it light up when one person in a couple is touched by the other. A team of Swedish investigators has now determined that the reaction also ensues when people view others being caressed.Until now, experts had no idea that such a stron... |
19 October 2011
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A new research by investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) demonstrates that people who get red-faced easily after gaffing in public are more trustworthy than their peers. The study also shows that these individuals may be more generous than others.
According to the study team, it could be ... |
29 September 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators has determined that honeybees may be the first invertebrate creatures to display signs of pessimism. This emotion was until now believed to be limited to more complex animals, but that turns out not to be the case. Discovering this benchmark cognitive trait in insects is a major breakthroug... |
18 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation conducted in the United States, it would appear that people were less angry about the September 11, 2001 attacks than televisions and other media outlets first reported. The picture these channels painted was one of a nation eager to get revenge, and of a people tha... |
10 May 2011
10:53 GMT |
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In a paper appearing in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, experts indicate that siblings may in fact bear a more considerable influence on each other than first thought. During a new series of experiments, investigators learned that the brothers and sisters of those suffering from attention defi... |
9 May 2011
02:38 GMT |
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New evidence are piling up in the scientific community, suggesting that keeping emotions locked inside may in fact make people more aggressive, even if unintentionally. The idea was shunned at first, but now more and more scientists are beginning to rally to this emerging theory.A collaboration of American experts, f... |
25 March 2011
06:13 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that people who want to calm down their emotions on occasions have found the perfect way to do so. Comfort foods are the method of choice used by those who want to get rid of stress, or simply relax at the end of the day.The dangerous thing about... |
22 March 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Using advanced medical imaging techniques, a team of researchers was able to determine how musical performances, and various elements therein, trigger the expression of emotions in the human brain.More precisely, the investigators looked at how emotion-related activity patterns fired up in the cortex, in response to ... |
21 December 2010
10:40 GMT |
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A team of Iowa University have identified the part of the brain that causes people to feel fear, and this discovery could be a step forward in improving the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, as well as other anxiety conditions.The researchers' case study was a woman who suffered from a rare c... |
17 December 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Scientists knew that sleep makes memories stronger, by fixating them in the brain and allowing an easy access later on, but a new research found out the reason why we sleep almost a third of our lives, and why do our bodies need so much sleep.Jessica D. Payne of the University of Notre Dame, and Elizabeth A. Kensinge... |
13 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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This last discovery of a team of psychologists is rather interesting because it mainly says that anger, which is considered a negative emotion, also has some of the features of positive emotions.After the experiments they carried out, the researchers found that associating an object with angry feelings, will only mak... |
2 November 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Researchers have wondered for a long time why people go out on Halloween night and search for scary thrills, such as horror movies, nasty costumes, haunted houses and so on. A new study throws some more light on this behavior. The investigation determined that most people search for these spine-chilling effects preci... |
1 November 2010
05:51 GMT |
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A team of Japanese researchers, writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine, carried out a research that concluded that stressed out mothers can worsen the gravity of their children's asthma symptoms, especially if the children are very young.The scientists focused on 223 mother... |
7 October 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Women with the baby blues process negative emotions differently than new mothers without the condition, says a team of scientists led by Mary Phillips at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Postpartum depression is a very serious health problem, that occurs to 15% of new mothers and can have significant conseq... |
20 September 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A team of investigators in the United Kingdom announces the development of the first prototypes of robots that can interact with humans via emotions. The machines develop the emotions as they interact with human caregivers, and are able to express some emotions of their own, the team says. The research effort was led... |
9 August 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Each person has their own personal memories, but some of these memories are a lot stronger, and also more intense, than others. These are called emotional memories, and they manifest themselves for example when you're transported back to childhood at the smell of a familiar aroma. Past events and experiences tha... |
6 August 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Over the past few years, various research groups have shown that a large number of species exhibited personality traits, and also the ability to express and perceive emotions. This was evident for example when scientists determined that fish can feel pain. As the new knowledge accumulated, investigators started wonde... |
4 August 2010
02:21 GMT |
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A team of investigators for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has recently determined that the human brain is capable of compensating for the loss of one of its regions. The group learned that the cortices of individuals who had lost a portion of the brain called the amygdala – which plays an i... |
3 August 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Cichlid fish males are not exactly cowards. They are very territorial and highly aggressive, and would gladly pick a fight with any other fish that happens to enter their waters. They are also known for the fact that they readily attack their own reflections, posturing and lunging as in a real battle. But scientists ... |
12 May 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Many people, at one point or another in their lives, decide they want to lose weight. While on paper, it's all well and good, with fixed eating schedules, and the amount of allowed calories per day clearly established, in reality, things are a lot different. One of the main reasons why so large discrepancies exi... |
9 April 2010
06:46 GMT |
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As all parents know, small children have a variety of cries that they employ in very specific situations. They have one for when they need their diapers changed, and one for when they're hungry. They also alert parents differently when they are in pain, or when they are sleepy. These emotions, or rather the key ... |
25 February 2010
08:33 GMT |
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Researchers in Europe discovered a unique independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease, for the first time ever. Appearing in the latest issue of the leading cardiology publication European Heart Journal, the study shows that happiness, content and enthusiasm are among the emotions th... |
18 February 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Researchers studying human behavior have recently made a finding that applies to all people, regardless of age. From toddlers to the elderly, individuals tend to neglect the new and stick with familiar things when feeling ill-disposed. Infants will cling to their mother's foot, whereas adults will always prefer ... |
10 February 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Over the past century or so, scientists have been wondering how it is that our emotions and thoughts can modify our expressions. This may seem natural, and indeed it is, but the mechanism behind this ability, or drawback as some call it, is still a mystery. A new investigation has recently determined that changing fa... |
1 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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In spite of the great variation of cultures and populations on the planet, there are some types of non-verbal communications that researchers believe transcend all barriers. They argue that, even if you visit the most primitive tribe in the deepest jungle of the world, the people there will understand if you sob, yel... |
26 January 2010
05:10 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University believe they may have found the answer to why musical perception is associated with various moods and emotions, and vice-versa, something that music producers have known for a long time. Any musician knows that minor chords sound sad and depressing, whereas major ones sound happy and... |
3 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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According to a communication professor at the University of Texas in Austin (UTA), people's representations in online worlds and computer games – known as their avatars – can exert a strong, negative influence on their owner's behavior, even if they are just virtual characters. In digital techno... |
11 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Horror films are not the standard in cinema, and are sometimes considered to be something of a niche genre. In spite of this, they cash sufficiently large sums of money at the box office, and have dedicated fans that form strongly bound communities. In recent months, a number of horror movies have taken theaters by s... |
7 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
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The internationally renowned Dutch electronics company Philips has recently announced the creation of a new research platform that uses the sense of touch to bring cinematic experiences to the next level. The Philips Emotions Jacket relies on using the body's largest organ, the skin, for relaying the stimuli tha... |
15 October 2009
06:41 GMT |
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An international team of scientists has recently made a groundbreaking discovery, when experts have discovered that people who were partially blind, due to injury to half of their brains, were able to “see” facial expressions and body language in pictures of other individuals. All of the images were shown... |
29 September 2009
01:25 GMT |
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Over recent years, the issue of subliminal messages has been fiercely debated by the international scientific community, as far as its effects on the human brain go. Several studies have analyzed how we pick up this type of messages, but flaws in their designs meant that their conclusions could not be trusted. Now, a... |
28 September 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Teen psychologists and parents have tried to figure out for a long time some of the triggers that make their children engage in violence before they turn 20 years old. In a new scientific study, experts propose that some of the youngsters do not possess the ability to correctly interpret social cues, such as the faci... |
18 September 2009
16:51 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, people of Asian descent are much less able than European races to accurately determine the differences in facial features of people expressing fear versus surprise, or disgust versus anger. The new report, which was published online on August 13th in the Cell Press publication Cur... |
14 August 2009
06:45 GMT |
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It would appear that there are, indeed, other benefits to dancing than just keeping fit and having fun, people are coming to realize. Experts are saying that learning how to dance the cha-cha-cha, waltz, or quickstep could do wonders for children's self esteem, and could also help other pupils gain more self-con... |
23 June 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Shopaholics are addicts and, as such, when the going gets tough, they turn to the only thing they believe can bring them comfort and some sense of security. Case in point: women in recession spend more money on shopping sprees than they would when they’re not financially strained, the findings of a new survey i... |
22 May 2009
13:21 GMT |
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According to a new batch of scientific studies, it would appear that the reason why Western music is able to make itself heard even in the most distant corners of the world is the fact that it can easily convey emotions across cultural barriers, even if no actual lyrics are sung. This may be one of the main motives w... |
23 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Music has, apparently, other effects on the brain as well, besides making people able to discern between good and bad sounds. According to researchers at the Northwestern University (NWU), being subjected to the influence of music from an early age makes young musicians more able to detect even the slightest nuances ... |
4 March 2009
09:27 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies prove what ancient people have known from, well, Antiquity, and namely that individuals who are always in a good mood and remain positive throughout the day experience less diseases and less sickness than those who are always gloomy. Researchers from the University of Kansas (UK) say that st... |
4 March 2009
08:27 GMT |
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The new research has been prompted by a very old question, and namely what is it that makes us remember certain moments of our past when we listen to the music we heard at that time? From a medical perspective, understanding precisely what makes this happen is crucial, and now a researcher from the University of Cali... |
24 February 2009
09:30 GMT |
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University College London (UCL) scientists conducted new experiments recently, designed to study the patterns that the brain activates when a person feels hate. This study is a part of a larger one, designed to map and catalog the parts of the brain that are involved in main human emotions, such as love, hate, fear, ... |
29 October 2008
07:28 GMT |
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Text messaging and chatting are becoming an important part of people's daily lives, and, as such, scientists thought it would be a good idea to investigate their effects on users' behavior when they talk to each other on-line. During a scientific experiment, several test subjects were paired and asked to ta... |
27 October 2008
00:15 GMT |
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Nexi is a MDS small humanoid robot, designed by MIT Media Lab's Personal Robotics Group, capable of expressing facial emotions much in the same way as humans do. MDS actually stands for 'Mobile/Dexterous/Social', meaning it can perform a multitude of tasks, by moving around on its dynamically self-bala... |
9 April 2008
06:56 GMT |
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