News tagged with emotional state
Perception of emotion is culture-specific
Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others' emotions ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Researchers use human cues to improve computer user-friendliness (w/ Video)
Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Dogs may be pessimistic too
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study has gained new insight into the minds of dogs, discovering that those that are anxious when left alone also tend to show 'pessimistic' like behaviour.
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Emotions help animals to make choices
To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to better understand their emotional lives. A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They're infectious, study finds
Is sadness a sickness? It appears to spread like one, a new study has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2010 |
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New study finds men and women may respond differently to danger
Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, according to a study presented today at the annual ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 29, 2009 |
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Diet switching can activate brain's stress system, lead to 'withdrawal' symptoms
In research that sheds light on the perils of yo-yo dieting and repeated bouts of sugar-bingeing, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that cycling between periods of eating sweet and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 09, 2009 |
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A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state
The system created by these researchers can be used to automatically adapt the dialogue to the user's situation, so that the machine's response is adequate to the person's emotional state. "Thanks to this ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Listening to music is biological
Our willingness to listen to music is biological trait and related to the neurobiological pathways affecting social affiliation and communication, suggests a recent Finnish study published in the Journal of Human Genetics.
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Vitamin C rapidly improves emotional state of acutely hospitalized patients, researchers say
Treatment with vitamin C rapidly improves the emotional state of acutely hospitalized patients, according to a study carried out by researchers at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital (JGH) and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute ...
Sep 23, 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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Innovative research reawakens human memories through intelligent textiles
As part of the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, two teams of researchers led by Professor Barbara Layne of Concordia University, Montreal, and Professor Janis Jefferies at Goldsmiths, University of London, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 03, 2010 |
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MDMA: Empathogen or love potion?
15 December 2010, MDMA or 'ecstasy' increases feelings of empathy and social connection. These 'empathogenic' effects suggest that MDMA might be useful to enhance the psychotherapy of people who struggle to feel connected ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 15, 2010 |
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An emotion detector for baby
Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists report details of a statistical computer ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Face off: Misunderstood expressions facilitate adolescent aggression
Juvenile delinquency may be a result of misunderstood social cues. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that male juvenile delinquents frequently misint ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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