James-Lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Our feelings follow our bodily reactions to external situations; for example, you feel sad because you are crying, or you're scared because you're shaking li...
He contends that it’s more about relationships. Cutting-edge humor straight out of Comedy Central is great, but people actually laugh more in conversation and through interaction. Provine has unearthed a few facts on laughter including: Laughter bonds people through prosocial behavior It’s a co...
It examines ideas about what knowledge is, where (or who) it comes from, and how it comes to be1,2,3. People have many ways of figuring out what is true, and some strategies come with serious flaws. Let’s start with a familiar scenario to explore how people determine facts: Santa ...
“Study Says Environment, Not Genetics, Defines Sense of Humor” talked about how the sense of humor in adults are not from genetics, but are from the surroundings of the human. Recent study has found that the sense of humor in a person is a learned trait and that family and cultural en...
Many such patients came to mind as I read Heather Christle'sThe Crying Book. Christle is a poet, and her prose shows it. You will surely end the book knowing much more about tears than when you started, including the facts that there are three different types of tears suited to differe...
Crying during a movie, reading a book, writing a poem, counting to 10, speaking to a teacher, playing a guitar, thinking silently, feeling pain, solving a puzzle, using a tool, remembering a quote, and loving a child are examples of actions that behavioral psychologists can study, as are...
; to establish by experiment the line of demarcation between intellect and instinct; to prove, by comparing facts in the zoological progression, whether human reason be an irreducible faculty or not: all this ought surely to take precedence of the number of joints in a Crustacean’s antenna. ...
It is a process through which a person tries to show the connection between unrelated facts and uses his intuitive thinking power for the same. Induction and deduction are the states which succeed the process of abductive reasoning. Abnormal Psychology ...
How is crying related to empathy and tragedy? Why can some music bring people to tears? Below, you can listen to Michael Trimble talk about the topics raised in his book Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain. Read More 20 years since the Bishopsgate bombing By ...
(IEED), also known aspseudobulbar affect, is indeed a real neurological disease characterized by emotional lability, and pathological laughing. This expressive disorder is characterized by uncontrollable, sudden and intense episodes of laughter (or for some patients, crying) that are exaggerated and ...