The Emotional Outsourcing of the Greeting Card
Is it a kind of cheating to give someone a pre-made greeting card?
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Literary Fiction Helps Us Read People
New research suggests reading literature increases our ability to pick up on the subjective states of others.
The Heightened Sensitivity of Romance Readers
New research finds people who read romantic fiction are good at picking up subtle facial clues revealing a person’s emotional state.
Brain Activity Provides Window to the Emotions
Carnegie Mellon researchers have identified distinct patterns of brain activity linked to specific emotions.
What’s That Thing Where You Feel That Thing and It Makes That Other Thing Happen?
The Emotionary is trying to answer that question.
How Positive Emotions Lead to Better Health
New research suggests that meditation or any other mood-enhancing activity can serve as a nutrient for the human body.
Why Is He Oblivious to Her Emotions?
New research suggests males can read the faces of men much better than those of women.
Overwritten, Maybe, But Less Overwrought
Researchers mining a Google books database report a decline in mood-related words in English-language books over the past 100 years.
Music of Vivaldi Boosts Mental Vitality
Have a challenging mental task ahead of you? Try using Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as background music.
Struggling to Reconcile Conflicting Beliefs? Listen to Some Mozart
Why is music such a constant in human history? Perhaps because it helps us build the emotional maturity we need to advance intellectually.