Thursday, December 31, 2020

Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension.

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Fascinating obeervations from Reynolds et al. :  Significance Greater autonomy afforded to women in matrilineal societies has been hypothe...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The generic "you" enhances connection between people and ideas

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An interesting piece from Orvell et al. : Creating resonance between people and ideas is a central goal of communication. Historically, at...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide .

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I want to pass on this article by Cowen et al. , which was the subject of a comment made on my December 2 post "Emotions are construct...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Hallucinogens at a prehistoric rock art site.

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Interesting work from Robinson et al. on stoned stone-age artists (open access article, see comment below)!  Significance Proponents of t...
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Friday, December 25, 2020

A musical offering for this day.

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I'm grateful to a number of MindBlog viewers for their positive feedback on the recent series of posts on Barrett's book on emotion...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

The plasticity of well-being and the cultivation of human flourishing

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I pass on the abstract of an open source article in PNAS contributed by my former colleague Richard Davidson and his colleages at the Unive...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Barrett's grand finale... From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier

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Following our last installment on the emotions of animals, this post arrives at Barrett's final take home messages in Chapter 13 of ...
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Monday, December 21, 2020

The emotions of animals - and our human mental inference fallacy

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This post continues Barrett's discussion of the implications of our new understanding of how emotions work, passing on some of her discu...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Emotion and the Law

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This post continues Barrett's discussion of the implications of our new understanding of how emotions work, passing on just a few chunks...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Implications of the new understanding of how our emotions really work - emotional well being

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The previous post in this series, 'A New View of Human Nature,' covering Chapter 8 of Barrett's book brought to a close her acco...
Monday, December 14, 2020

A New View of Human Nature

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This post continues on from the abstracting of Chapter 7 ‘Emotions as Social Reality’ with Chapter 8 ‘A New View of Human Nature’ from Barr...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Emotions as Social Reality

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This post is the next installment of my reduction of Barrett’s book, continuing on to Chapter 7 (Emotions as Social Reality) from the summa...
Wednesday, December 09, 2020

How the Brain Makes Emotions

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This post continues on from the summary of chapter 5 (Concepts, Goals, and Words) in Barrett’s book " How Emotions Are Made: The Secre...
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Monday, December 07, 2020

Concepts, Goals, and Words

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I now proceed on from a previous post on ‘The Origin of Feeling’ , chapter 4 of Barrett’s book on emotions, to an idiosyncratic selection of...
Friday, December 04, 2020

The Origin of Feeling

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This post continues my cooking down, rewriting, paraphrasing, and excerpting of Barrett’s book on emotions with Chapter 4, “The Origin of F...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Emotions are constructed, and are not universal.

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This post continues with clips, paraphrase, and editing of Barrett’s book " How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain "...
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