From the Aalto University press release: The brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people. Differences are greater in social emotions, such as gratitude and contempt. In the…
From the Cell Press press release: There’s nothing wrong with being a little weird. Because we think of psychological disorders on a continuum, we may worry when our own ways of thinking and behaving don’t…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income…
From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: To want to be a social entrepreneur, empathy is not enough for millennials. They need to feel confident in their ability to solve social problems and feel valued…
From the American Psychological Association press release: How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Punishing a wrongdoer may be more rewarding to the brain than supporting a victim. That is one suggestion of new research published in JNeurosci, which measured the brain activity…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: Our own unique experiences shape how we view the world and respond to the events in our lives. But experience is highly subjective. What’s distressing or joyful to…
From the New York University press release: College roommates are sensitive to their roommates’ distress but tend to underestimate the level of distress being experienced by others, finds a newly published study from New York…
From the Lancaster University press release: Physicists have devised a new method of investigating brain function, opening a new frontier in the diagnoses of neurodegenerative and aging related diseases. This new non-invasive technique could potentially…
From the Ohio State University press release: When people eat at home, there’s typically not much left on their plates – and that means there’s likely less going to landfills, according to new research from…