Category Archives: Emotions

Meditation may Improve Emotional Processing

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Meditation may produce lasting improvements in the area of the brain responsible for processing emotions, new research suggests. A cohort study of 51 adults showed, through the use of imaging scans, that those who underwent 8 weeks of mindful attention training … Continue reading →

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An unpleasant emotional state reduces working memory capacity

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Emotional states can guide the actions and decisions we make in our everyday life through their influence on cognitive processes such as working memory (WM). We investigated the long-lasting interference that an unpleasant emotional state had on goal-relevant WM representations … Continue reading →

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The Future of Musical Emotions

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Basic Emotion Theory proper (BET) has only recently begun to make an appearance in musical research. However, much theory and research in music psychology have been driven by a more general assumption that musical emotions should be investigated in terms … Continue reading →

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Coronary Heart Disease and Emotional Intelligence

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is associated with emotions, especially negative ones, namely anxiety and depression. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a psychological model that consists of a variety of emotional skills. The aim of the present study was to examine the … Continue reading →

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The Ability to Regulate Emotion is Associated with Greater Well-Being, Income, and Socioeconomic Status

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Are people who are best able to implement strategies to regulate their emotional expressive behavior happier and more successful than their counterparts? Although past research has examined individual variation in knowledge of the most effective emotion regulation strategies, little is … Continue reading →

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The Power of Expectation can restrain Hyper-Emotional Memories in the Brain

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

The creaking of an opening gate followed by a dog attack can disturb otherwise pleasant evening walks. The sound of that gate opening on subsequent walks will elicit an emotional response, and the power of this response will be different … Continue reading →

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The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts … Continue reading →

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Culture and the Self – Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the two. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual experience, including cognition, emotion, and motivation. … Continue reading →