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In a forthcoming paper, researchers Melanie Rudd, Kathleen Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker examined whether the emotion of awe, compared to happiness and neutral states, might reduce people's sense of time pressure and consequently make them more willing to volunteer their time, choose experiences over material objects, and enjoy greater life satisfaction. 
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How is our consciousness connected to the world? Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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A paper in the April, 2012 issue of Psychological Science suggests that changing the way people see something can also influence their skill. Articles about PERCEPTION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=perception
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A smile and a frown mean the same thing everywhere—or so say many anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists, who for more than a century have argued that all humans express basic emotions the same way. But a new study of people's perceptions of computer-generated faces suggests that facial expressions may not be universal and that our culture strongly shapes the way we read and express emotions. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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"A human being is a deciding being," Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," which sold more than 10 million copies. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology Via Dimitris Agorastos
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Forget everything you know about the world and how it looks. Everything you have ever seen, everything you have ever heard, even everything you have ever felt and smelt, is not real. It’s all just pretend.
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It's not the chemical content of alcohol that makes us think we're more attractive, it's merely the belief that we're drunk that inflates our self-perceived appeal (up to a point - in fact the average self-judged attractiveness rating for the group who though they'd had alcohol still wasn't that high). More about DRUNK: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=drunk
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Financial loss can lead to irrational behavior. Now, research by Weizmann Institute scientists reveals that the effects of loss go even deeper: Loss can compromise our early perception and interfere with our grasp of the true situation. The findings, which recently appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, may also have implications for our understanding of the neurological mechanisms underlying post-traumatic stress disorder.
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June 13, 2012 2:54 PM
Funny, you see this behavior sometimes while playing poker. http://www.ehow.com/about_4673664_does-full-tilt-mean-poker.html
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How time perception is warped by life-threatening situations, eye movements, tiredness, hypnosis, age, the emotions and more…... Articles about TIME: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=time
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Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell–seem to operate independently, as five distinct modes of perceiving the world. In reality, however, they collaborate closely to enable the mind to better understand its surroundings. We can become aware of this collaboration under special circumstances. In some cases, a sense may covertly influence the one we think is dominant. When visual information clashes with that from sound, sensory crosstalk can cause what we see to alter what we hear. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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