by SoP | Sep 11, 2017 | News |
A new UC Berkeley study challenges a long-held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.
by SoP | Jul 5, 2017 | News |
FINDINGS Researchers have identified gut microbiota that interact with brain regions associated with mood and behavior. This may be the first time that behavioral and neurobiological differences associated with microbial composition in healthy humans have been...
by SoP | Nov 4, 2014 | Brain, Magazine |
Emotional Thought: Toward An Evidence-Based Framework Mary Helen Immordino-Yang & Antonio Damasio In general, cognition and emotion are regarded as two interrelated aspects of human functioning. However, while it is perfectly reasonable and in fact necessary to...
by SoP | Oct 29, 2014 | Magazine |
Anger, fear, guilt, depression, anxiety. No one wishes to experience these feelings, however, they are inevitable to many of us. For some, these negative emotions and memories can interfere with our daily functioning and affect us and those around us greatly. Somehow...
by Richard Hill | Sep 4, 2014 | Magazine |
Smiling has to be a good thing and, broadly speaking, it is, but Aparna Labroo and colleagues have conducted research that shows it depends on what you are expecting. Despite the somewhat infamous title line from Monty Python, the research examined the principle that...
