Emotions: Predicting the Intensity of Emotional Reactions
People often overestimate the intensity and duration of negative emotions is because they do not recognize the tendency to rationalize or make the best of bad situations. It is human nature to reframe events that affect ..
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 speci..
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 ..
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..
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 react..
Endless Questions: Ethics and Research
The fact that people react to being studied makes human research challenging. In order to capture responses in a pure form, some level of deception or manipulation may be employed. At universities and research institut..
Endless Questions: Future of Psychological Research, The
No one research method is best. Each approach has its pros and cons, and all are needed to understand human behavior. Psychology is becoming more of a serious science that builds on its own successes. The next genera..
Endless Questions: Measuring Correlations to Find Relationships
In order to determine interrelationships researchers measure the same two variables for each individual involved in a study. If naturally-occurring associations can be found between two different sets of data, one fact..
Endless Questions: Performing Experiments
In an experiment, the ideal is to manipulate a single variable. It becomes the only element that differs between control and experimental groups. In a Carnegie Melon study, for example, primates are randomly assigned..
Endless Questions: Research in Immersive Virtual Environments
Immersive virtual technology allows researchers to create a high degree of ecological realism and still have total experimental control. Researchers can manipulate a single variable as we see in the study of personal d..