March 19, 2021
by Elizabeth Pratt
Lab based studies of emotional and wellbeing may be missing real world anxiety.
A study from Duke published in PLOS One found that the background level of anxiety a person may normally experience could change how they behave in a lab setting. This could have important implications for research into wellbeing and emotional health.
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January 27, 2020
by Elizabeth Pratt
Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that rather than putting on a fake happy face at work, it is better to make an effort to actually feel the emotions you display.
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January 22, 2020
by Elizabeth Pratt
More than 34 million adults in the US currently smoke cigarettes, and more than 16 million live with a smoking related disease.
But after decades of anti-smoking campaigns, what drives this behaviour? Do emotions factor into it?
Researchers from Harvard University set out to find an answer.
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All across the United States, social justice protests in recent weeks have erupted into violent attacks on symbols of private property, authority, and power. Outrage at obvious racism embedded in police culture and government policies flashed through poor neighborhoods unwilling to tolerate another example of systematic contemptuous treatment of minorities by predominantly white police departments. Like a match set to gasoline, long suppressed pain and helplessness unleashed violent, out of control hatred.
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