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Why do people cry tears of joy and pinch babies’ cheeks? According to science, it may help you calm down.
The Washington Post: Ever see a puppy so cute that you have no idea what to do with yourself? Like, what sort of response am I supposed to have when seeing something like this? Do you
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Study Investigates Why People Cry When They Are Happy
Gizmodo: Ever cried ‘tears of joy’ when you were really happy? A Yale study has revealed that tears of joy actually help people overcome strong positive emotions and crying allows them to recover from the
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DISCOVERING THE ECOLOGY OF THE MIND
Science 2034: The forthcoming movie “Inside Out” from Disney-Pixar explores the life of a young girl through characters who each represent an emotion like joy, fear, anger or disgust. While boiling each emotion down to
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New Insights Into the ‘It’s So Cute I Could Eat It’ Phenomenon
New York Magazine: Last year, psychology at long last acknowledged the existence of “cute aggression,” that urge to nom-nom-nom a baby or a kitten or some other impossibly cute thing. This week, some of those same researchers expand on
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“Tears of Joy” May Help Us Maintain Emotional Balance
Many life experiences, such as witnessing the birth of a child or finally achieving a long sought-after goal, can lead to what may seem like confusing expressions of emotion, like tears of joy. But new
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Nervous Laughter, Tears of Joy
In Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience experiments, the subjects, called “teachers,” were instructed to shock the “learners” for every wrong answer. The learners, confederates in the study, were not actually shocked, of course, but the teachers
