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Meditating to prepare yourself for future emotions. People have been doing it for ages, but the longterm emotional effect was never scientifically proven. Now it has. American researchers recorded activity changes in peoples brain, after meditation. 
Brady Wyman's curator insight,
March 25, 2013 11:49 AM
Shows how meditation can increase emotional stability to allow better coping with stress.
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A study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience suggests that the use of compassion-based meditation -- a form of meditation that focuses on mindfulness in relationships -- improves people's ability to read others' expressions and act accordingly
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Have you ever wondered why you can remember things from long ago as if they happened yesterday, yet sometimes can't recall what you ate for dinner last night?
It's all about how much emotional impact the memory carries with it. Memories are clearer when they're emotionally arousing.
According to Rebecca Todd, a postdoctoral fellow in U of T's Department of Psychology and lead author of the study published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, "Whether they're positive -- for example, a first kiss, the birth of a child, winning an award -- or negative, such as traumatic events, breakups, or a painful and humiliating childhood moment that we all carry with us, the effect is the same.""How vividly we perceive something in the first place predicts how vividly we will remember it later on," says Todd. "We call this 'emotionally enhanced vividness' and it is like the flash of a flashbub that illuminates an event as it's captured for memory." Via Gina Stepp
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Studies of how rats and ants rescue other members of their species do not prove that animals other than humans have empathy, according to biologists.
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New software developed for Microsoft's workplace social network, Yammer, can gauge the emotions of employees using the network by analyzing the messages they sent through it.
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Pretending that you find someone attractive increases your susceptibility to their charms and heightens your chances of truly falling in love with them, according to new relationship research. More on ATTRACTION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=attraction
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A new study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers reveals that moderate amounts of alcohol—consumed in a social setting—can enhance positive emotions and social bonding and relieve negative emotions among those drinking.
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By strategically inducing confusion in a learning session on difficult conceptual topics, people actually learned more effectively and were able to apply their knowledge to new problems.
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Looking at long-held owner beliefs, a study suggests that dogs comforted crying strangers in ways similar to human infants.
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After MIT researchers fine-tune software that can read human facial expressions for emotion, the next step will be to apply the technology to crowds of millions of people to get a feeling for a population's general mood.
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There are more facets to the mind-music connection than there are notes in a major scale, but it's fascinating to zoom in on a few to see the extraordinary affects music can have on your brain.
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In online discussions, people provide vital emotional support for others. Now computer scientists have created an index that automatically identifies Good Samaritans.
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Why did the proverbial Good Samaritan cross the road to help the injured stranger? Perhaps he listened to his heart. Not in the poetic sense, but literally. A new study by Jun Gu and his colleagues has highlighted the way cardiac feedback influences people's moral decisions. When students were fed false feedback, leading them to think their heart was racing, they were more likely to volunteer for a good cause and less likely to lie to gain more money.
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In fact, Ekman has found that facial expressions express seven emotions - fear, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, enjoyment, and contempt. These seven emotions individually represent a "family of emotions." In other words, there are many different variations to the type of anger someone might be feeling, and expressing. These emotions and their corresponding micro expressions are shared across cultures.
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Given that lower-class individuals are more dependent on their social environments and on others than their upper-class counterparts, we might also expect that these individuals will exhibit more emotional contagion in interactions. Specifically, being constantly vigilant of others' emotions may make an individual prone to unintentionally experiencing the emotions of others.
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The fist-pumping, chest-swelling, grimacing roar that an Olympic judo player emits after body-slamming his opponent deserves a spot on the list of universally recognized expressions such as anger and happiness, a new study suggests.
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By using language to help us reflect on positive ideas and emotions, we can enhance our overall well being, and we improve the functioning of our brain.
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A new study reveals a simple strategy that people can use to minimize how angry and aggressive they get when they are provoked by others. When someone makes you angry, try to pretend you’re viewing the scene at a distance - in other words, you are an observer rather than a participant in this stressful situation. Then, from that distanced perspective, try to understand your feelings. More on AGGRESSION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=aggression
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Our eyes don’t just take in the world around us, they can also reflect our emotional state, influence our memories, and provide clues about the way we think. Here is some of the latest research from the journals Psychological Science and Current Directions in Psychological Science in which scientists show there’s much more to the eyes than people might think. More on EYES: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=eyes
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Paul Zak is a neuroeconomist, studying how a chemical called oxytocin elicits trust, empathy and better workplace cooperation.
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EmotiMeter is a client-side application that continuously search for emoticons (happy / sad) in Twitter updates and draws a circle in a world map regarding the user location.
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You don’t tell your opponent what to think or what’s best. You help them discover for themselves what feels right and best and most advantageous to them. Their ultimate decision is based on self-interest. That’s emotional. I want this. This is good for me and my side. More on DECISION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=decision
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In his new book, The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity, neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak discusses his research on oxytocin, what he calls the "moral molecule." For the past 10 years, Zak has been conducting the same kind of trust games that are common in experimental economics, but with a twist. Before and after the trust games, Zak has been taking blood samples with the goal of gaining a better understanding of how and why people trust others. More on OXYTOCIN: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=oxytocin
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