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Category Archives: Emotions
Brain Emotional and Social Behavior Regulation
UCLA researchers have shown for the first time a comprehensive picture of cell diversity in the amygdala, a vital brain region involved in the regulation of emotions and social behavior, as well as in autism spectrum disorders, depression, and other … Continue reading
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Meditation may Improve Emotional Processing
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
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
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
Coronary Heart Disease and Emotional Intelligence
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
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
The Power of Expectation can restrain Hyper-Emotional Memories in the Brain
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
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
Culture and the Self – Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation
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
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Decision-making in the Adolescent Brain
Adolescence is characterized by making risky decisions. Early lesion and neuroimaging studies in adults pointed to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and related structures as having a key role in decision-making. More recent studies have fractionated decision-making processes into its various … Continue reading
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