News tagged with emotional reactions
That's gross!: Study uncovers physiological nature of disgust in politics
Most likely, you would be disgusted if confronted with a picture of a man eating a mouthful of writhing worms. Or a particularly bloody wound. Or a horribly emaciated but still living body. But just how much disgust you feel ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Researchers find amplification of bias in advice to the unidentified and many
Professionals often give advice to many anonymous people. For example, financial analysts give public recommendations to buy, hold or sell stock, and medical experts formulate clinical guidelines that affect many patients.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Affectiva technology taps into people's emotions
Computers may soon understand people better than their spouses do, courtesy of innovations from startup Affectiva that expand on groundbreaking sensing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Why do our emotions get in the way of rational decisions about safety products?
A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores why people reject things that can make them safer.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2011 |
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People neglect who they really are when predicting their own future happiness
Humans are notoriously bad at predicting their future happiness. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that part of the reason for these mispredictions lies i ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2011 |
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The impact right or left handling has on development may determine emotional consequences
Certain events experienced at the moment of birth have consequences on the emotional reactions of animals at an adult age. French researchers from the Laboratoire d'Ethologie Animale et Humaine have tested ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Are all movie viewing experiences enjoyable?
We've all been there: we are watching a movie with a parent or relative when a steamy love scene appears. A new study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that all of that squirming and averting of eyes is nor ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Study: Avoidance, poor coping challenge prisoners returning to society
How do individuals often cope with reentry from prison to society?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Inflicting greater harm judged to be less harmful
Joseph Stalin once claimed that a single death was a tragedy, but a million deaths was a statistic. New research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University validates this sentiment, confirming large-scale ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Text messages reveal the emotional timeline of September 11, 2001
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been called the defining moment of our time. Thousands of people died and the attacks had huge individual and collective consequences, including two wars. But less is known ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 01, 2010 |
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'You can't hide your lyin' eyes': Eye-tracking lie-detection
Shifty eyes long have been thought to signify a person's problem telling the truth. Now a group of University of Utah researchers are taking that old adage to a new level.
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Virtual food causes stress in patients affected by eating disorders
Food presented in a virtual reality (VR) environment causes the same emotional responses as real food. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry compared the re ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Desire and dread: Brain's computer has separate keyboard to control powerful emotions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling powerful emotional reactions is often difficult because the brain's computer has a separate "keyboard" that controls feelings within extreme emotions like desire and dread, according to University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Meditative breathing may help manage chronic pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the journal Pain offers support for the benefits of yoga-style breathing and meditation to help control chronic pain.
Apr 08, 2010 |
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High unexpressed anger in MS patients linked to nervous system damage, not disease severity
People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) feel more than twice as much withheld anger as the general population and this could have an adverse effect on their relationships and health, according to a study published in the December ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 24, 2009 |
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