Tag: emotions

Study suggests damage to amydala can make sideways faces more memorable and cause ’emotion blindness’

From the University of Bath press release: People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces looking sideways more… Read more »

Study suggests improving teens’ social and emotional lives must go beyond teaching skills

From the University of Texas at Austin press release: School programs designed to educate children and adolescents on how to understand and manage emotions, relationships and academic goals must go… Read more »

Study suggests sharing voluntarily makes young kids happy

From the Frontiers press release: If humans are primarily motivated by self-interest, as traditional economic theory claims, why do we sometimes perform acts of generosity that don’t yield us any… Read more »

Does stress lead to lengthier periods of sick leave?

From the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International press release: The duration of a person’s unfitness for work is determined by more than his/her primary diagnosis. Patients often report psychological problems and a feeling… Read more »

Oxytocin administered to the nose increases emotion perception in autism

From the University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine press release: A recent study has demonstrated that intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others. This is an… Read more »