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Augmented Reality Glasses
An article1 describes the development of glasses that allow the wearer to read the emotions from the face being viewed. They are the result of research done by Rosalind Picard of the Massachusetts...
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Emotions and a Healthy Memory
When I was a graduate student in the seventies studying cognition, emotions were of little interest. We needed to research cognition, the important stuff. Emotions were something of concern to...
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The Six Dimensions of Emotional Style
These six dimensions are taken from The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley. Resilience style. When you’re knocked down, do you bounce back quickly and get back into...
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Resilience
Resilience is one of the dimensions of Davidson’s Six Dimensions of Emotional Style.1 It refers to how quickly you bounce back from adversity. Do you bounce back quickly or do you let something bad...
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Self-Awareness
To this point, the dimensions of the Six Dimensions of Emotional Style1 that have received more detailed consideration, Outlook, Resilience, Social Intuition, and Context Sensitivity are fairly obvious...
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Your Heart is In Your Brain
The brain and the heart are two organs that are typically thought of as opposites. The brain is for logical thinking, and the heart is for feeling. Although the heart is certainly important for the...
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Transforming the Emotional Mind
The title of this post is identical to the title of Chapter nine of Sharon Begley’s “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.” In the 1970s, Davidson and his colleagues discovered striking differences in...
View ArticleHarmonizing Emotions and Thought
The title of this section is identical to the title of a section in Daniel Goleman’s book “Emotional Intelligence.” The hub of the battles or cooperative treaties struck between head and heart, thought...
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Perhaps the most significant obstacle to living a fulfilling life is learning to control our minds. If we are pessimists and think depressing thoughts we are unnecessarily depressing ourselves and...
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