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Articles on Emotions
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Emotions play a key role in many types of spontaneous thoughts. Even microemotions — which are often fleeting and unconscious — can affect thoughts and influence attention.
Sleep and mental health have a well established relationship.
In 1872, Charles Darwin published a book on expressions and emotions that modern science is only beginning to catch up with.
Comparing ourselves to people who are worse off than we are on social media should make us feel better. The opposite is true.
Contrary to society’s celebrations of family togetherness, the ‘ties that bind’ often become frayed or broken.
A researcher who studied family estrangement identifies the main reasons behind it and how people can find a path to reconcile and heal family rifts.
For the first 12 months of the pandemic, a team of researchers tracked the relationship between emotions, time perception and health-related behaviors like wearing a mask.
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to communicate complicated crises like climate change. Telling relatable and local stories can help motivate people to action.
The emotions we attach to political affiliation are shifting during this federal election. The vote may turn out to be a master class in how a party can capture the political mood and use it to its benefit.
The pandemic has made some people rush to get tattoos for different reasons. A tattoo historian explains why tattoos are often seen to be ‘trashy,’ a view likely influenced by colonialism.
Ignoring negative emotions by trying to be positive all the time — called toxic positivity — can have consequences for mental health. Experiencing negative emotions is inevitable and essential.
We are living through a one-in-one hundred year event. We are all doing the best we can. And that’s not only OK, it’s enough.
Measuring the heart rate of animlas can reveal their changing emotional state, even when their behaviour stays the same.
Unloading about trauma and mental illness is in vogue. But like undressing, it centers musicians’ vulnerabilities at the expense of their artistry.
After more than a year of idealizing life without COVID-19, people are starting to reenter ‘normal’ life. Clinical psychology provides guidance on how to prepare for your post-pandemic reboot.
Australian Indigenous languages use a fascinating array of expressions drawing on body parts to describe emotions. Here is a guide to some of the most intriguing ones.
A lack of emotional support within the police is leading to PTSD and burnout.
Some therapists are calling for a new way to understand human distress.
TV programmes with certain themes can help boost our mood.
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
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Professor of Social Psychology IPU Berlin and Visiting Professor of Social and Political Psychology, Coventry University, Coventry University
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Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology
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Former Senior lecturer in Psychology
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Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology, Bond University
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Lecturer, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, retired, University of California, San Francisco
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