By Tanya Menon, Leigh Thompson — 2010
In the course of our research, we’ve found that it is possible to prevent yourself from being consumed by envy and even to harness it to your advantage.
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Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...
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Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.
How do we create a healthier relationship with anger? Most of us either stuff our anger or we suddenly find ourselves erupting in rage.
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A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.
Daniel Amen wants to see the end of mental illness, and he may very well achieve his goal.
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Davidson describes what he describes as "contemplative neuroscience."
The impact of meditation on cultivating more positive emotional qualities.
Renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson is finding that happiness is something we can cultivate and a skill that can be learned. Working with the Dalai Lama, Davidson is investigating the far-reaching impact of mindfulness, meditation, and the cultivation of kindness on human health and well-being.
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“Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life’s slings and arrows and others more resilient?” In this eye-opening talk, Richard Davidson discusses how mindfulness can improve well-being and outlines strategies to boost four components of a healthy mind: awareness, connection,...
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Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.