(Exploring Your Mind) People used to restrain emotional and artistic expressions. Thus, any negative feelings had to be disguised. Today, emotional expressions make the world feel freer.
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If You Love Cats, This May Be Why
(John Amodeo) What felines can teach us about affection
How the Brain Decides to Punish or Not
(Neuroscience News) Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, has conducted meta-analysis of 17 articles to find out which areas of the brain are involved decision-making for rendering social punishment. It would appear that in case of both victims of violations as well as witnesses, punishment decisions activate the brain regions responsible for focusing one’s attention, processing information, and responding effectively to social interaction. The findings of the study were published in Scientific Reports.
Forgiveness: An Important Aspect of Flourishing
(Tyler J. VanderWeele Ph.D.) One of the projects of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University has been researching the topic of forgiveness and its importance for a flourishing life. Some of our empirical work has explored how forgiveness can powerfully shape health and well-being. For example, our research indicates that forgiveness reduces subsequent depression and anxiety by about 15-20%, when controlling for other variables, and suggests that forgiveness is a freeing and healing alternative to maladaptive responses like rumination and suppression.
The Rationality Wars and the Credibility Revolution
(Alexander Danvers Ph.D.) The Credibility Revolution in psychology is in part a product of the discipline’s own success, according to a recent philosophy paper. The author Ivan Flis, argues that at the heart of our desire to improve methods for making scientific claims is applying a phenomenon psychologists established observing others to ourselves: Confirmation Bias.