Emotions: What Makes Emotions Distinctive?
Emotions are unbidden, influenced by both our phylogeny (instinctual evolutionary history) and our ontogeny (the environment in which we matured). Emotions are triggered without our being able to have much influence over the process. Emotions have f...
Emotions: Culture and Emotion
Across cultures, researchers often find similarities in the ways emotion is expressed. Paul Ekman showed photographs of people expressing emotion to people of radically different cultures, and certain emotions, without question, carried universal me...
Emotions: Research Related to Happiness Expands
Happiness, or "subjective well being," includes such positive emotions as feelings of love, joy, and life satisfaction. Research reveals that factors like financial well being and success have a relatively small bearing on happiness in comparison to...
People to People: Relations Characterized by Altruism and Conciliation
When you look at daily behavior, people are continually doing things for other people when they don't have to. Certain emotions like awe and compassion encourage people to commit to collective principles and become more devoted to their group. An ex...
Emotions: Gender and Emotion
Women tend to be slightly more emotionally expressive and sensitive than men in nonverbal communication. Men are better at regulating their emotions. There is only a narrow range of emotional options considered appropriate for men. Men can express a...
Emotions: Relationship Between Thinking and Emotion, The
Most emotion researchers agree that cognitions can elicit emotion and emotions can shape cognition. The argument is over whether or not cognition is required for emotion. Brief emotions, researchers believe, have a specific functional form of cognit...
Emotions: What is Emotion?
Emotions chart the landscape of life. People know the words and the facial expressions that are distinctive to feelings like happiness, sadness, fear, anger. When we become emotional, our brain notices and our body reacts. A new view of emotion trea...
Endless Questions: Scientific Method, The
Research studies require measurements that can be replicated Deciding what to measure often begins with an idea or hunch and the development of an hypothesis. Researchers must create operational definitions, specifying how variables will be mea...