However, he wasn’t sleeping. He was sitting up right next to me. He had this big marker in his hand, not unlike the ones I’d seen him draw with before. And he was using it to write something on my face. I distinctly remember feeling it. I also remember looking up at him, see...
The interaction between emotion and cognition takes center stage in the work of Damasio whose “Somatic Marker Hypothesis” has been among the most influential theories of emotion in recent years. According toDamasio (1994, 1999),somaticmarkers are emotional reactions with a strong somatic component ...
Surging interest in individual differences has faced setbacks in light of recent replication crises in psychology, for example in brain-wide association studies exploring brain-behavior correlations. A crucial component of replicability for individual di
The researchers looked at the functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the cingulate gyrus. They also looked at Interleukin-6, a known marker of inflammation, that has been previously shown to be elevated in stressed out unemployed people. Even with this brief weekend mi...
A type of biological marker that is simpler to detect than genetic sequences and that may be useful in researching vulnerability to a wide range of psychological, psychiatric and neurological disorders. Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS). A non-invasive brain stimulation technique that appl...
Together, these findings reveal locus coeruleus catecholamine function is a promising marker of affective health and pathology burden in aging, and that this may be a candidate neurobiological mechanism for the effect of personality on increased vulnerability to dementia. Locus coeruleus catecholamines ...
is a trait consistently valued across cultures.Hair quality, usually seen as a marker of vitality, also determines women's physical attractiveness. Secondarysexualcharacteristics elicited by pubertalhormonalchanges not directly related to the reproductive system include rounded hips, conspicuously larger breas...
What’s required for the development of empathy is thehormoneoxytocin, a biological marker of socialbondingand relationship formation. For a long time, it was thought that only touch could trigger the oxytocin response—a hug, a hand on the shoulder. But it is now clear that oxytocin release...
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There is an ever-increasing understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying how we process others’ behaviours during social interactions. However, little is known about how people decide when to leave an interaction. Are these decisions shaped by a