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 and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people do.
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September 15, 2010
Perception of emotion is culture-specific
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August 17, 2010
Special Issue Of Current Directions In Psychological Science Focuses On Schizophrenia Research
It has been nearly a century since the term "schizophrenia" was first used to describe what was then considered a hopeless and incurable disorder of thought and emotion. Schizophrenia is still baffling to both scientists and the general public, but it is no longer considered hopeless...
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August 14, 2010
Emotion dysregulation and suicide
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. I have a small window here at the end of my work week to put together a quick post, so I wanted to spend a little time talking with PBB readers about a study I...
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August 12, 2010
Communication and Emotional Expression (Part 4): The Bridging Point
Is there a "right" way to communicate emotion? For many people who have non-traditional methods of communication, it certainly seems that the world thinks so.In this series, I have written of my experiences with members of my family each of whom had unique methods of communicating emotion. Each of them had something to teach me, and others that knew them. Knowing them has transformed my perceptio
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August 6, 2010
Happy? Angry? Anxious? How Can We Measure Animal Emotions?
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 may tell animals about how dangerous or opportunity-laden their world is, and guide the choices that they make...
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August 4, 2010
Emotions help animals to make choices
A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions may tell animals about how dangerous or opportunity-laden their world is, and guide the choices that they make.
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July 24, 2010
Major depression associated with impaired processing of emotion in music?
Previous studies have found that the processing of faces and voices is negatively biased in major depression. Naranjo and colleagues were the first to investigate possible effects of major depression on the recognition of emotion in music. According to the authors: as music is not directly linked to interpersonal communication, comparing a musical task with [...]... Naranjo, C., Kornreich
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May 28, 2010
Personality and emotion: take 4
Image via WikipediaI’ve written about the relation between personality and emotion from my perspective, but was gladdened when I found Scherer has written on the matter in a very eloquent and apt manner. To quote from him and Revelle:Personality is the coherent patterning of affect, behavior, cognition, and desires (goals) over time and space. Just More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Rel
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March 5, 2010
Am happy, will be paranoid/ gullible; am sad, will be realistic
Image via WikipediaHappiness may lead to mood-congruent effects of increasing trust(a positive emotion itself) in interpersonal situations; an alternative theory is that happiness leads to top-down processing , thus relying more on activated schema , stereotypes etc and thus leading to more trust when trust schema or cues are salient and distrust when untrustworthy schema More >Rating: 0.0/1
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March 4, 2010
Parkinson’s disease makes it harder to figure out how other people feel
Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognize expressions of emotion in other people's faces and voices, report two new studies.
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