Medical Xpress

Emotion, not just action, helps brain define, divide events

In the 2001 film "Tortilla Soup," an argument between three sisters culminates in one smashing a plate on the kitchen floor. The abrupt, surprising action is an example of what psychology scholars ...
Psychology Today

A Story of Emotion

Unfortunately, one of the most significant things ever said about emotion may be that everyone knows what it is until they are asked to define it. —Joseph LeDoux Being humans, we are experiencing ...
Medical Xpress

Mixed emotions—neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...
Inverse

Can Your Brain Experience Two Emotions Simultaneously? Here’s What A Neuroscientist Thinks

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...
Fast Company

Here’s the science behind mixed emotions

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...
Yahoo

Mixed emotions – neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can you hold a positive emotion simultaneously with a negative one? Dimitri Otis/Stone via Getty Images Countless parents across ...