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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. 
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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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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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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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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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Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Goals are more specific to behavior than are emotions, and they are better predictors of behavior in natural environments.
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Individuals are willing to sacrifice their own resources to promote equality in groups. These costly choices promote equality and are associated with behavior that supports cooperation in humans, but little is known about the brain processes involved. We use functional MRI to study egalitarian preferences based on behavior observed in the “random income game.” NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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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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Pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson says our personalities and emotional responses are rooted in the brain. He explains how we can change the brain to transform our lives. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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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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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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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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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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If your partner is angry, you are likely to miss the fact that your partner might also be feeling sad.
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Social psychologist Gerben van Kleef of the University of Amsterdam is an expert in the social approach to emotion, which views emotion as occurring between rather than just within individuals. In his new (Dutch) book, Op het gevoel – Hoe we elkaar beïnvloeden met onze emoties, he shows how we constantly influence each other with our emotions, consciously and unconsciously, and why expressing emotions is essential for successful social relationships. EMOTIONS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=emotions
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Known as neuroplasticity, findings show you have an innate ability to restructure the gray matter of your brain, literally speaking, with your mind and conscious action. When you change what you think, say or do in response to an event or situation, you change inner emotional states. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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