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A Hidden Adolescent Struggle: Identifying Complex Emotions
Recent research offers a helpful insight into adolescent emotion processing. Children and adults are relatively good at distinguishing among their emotions. They can say “I’m feeling angry, but not sad.” Adolescents, however, have a harder time sorting out their feelings. For them, negative emotions all churn together. Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence: Teachers’ Perspectives
The National Network of State Teachers of the Year has released a report on teaching emotional intelligence. Overall, they find research in this field persuasive. That is, these award-winning teachers think it likely that social/emotional intelligence can be taught, and
Video Games and Empathy
Do violent video games reduce empathy? If people spend lots of time pretending to beat up and shoot pretend people, will this experience reduce their empathy for human suffering? Will it make them more likely to really beat up and
Emotion: Cognition’s Rudder
We are not rational beings. In fact, many aspects of our cognition are inherently emotional. When one’s emotional well-being suffers, so does her cognition. Because of the inseparable nature of emotion and cognition, the way we feel has a profound
The Misleading Headline of the Week…and What to Do About It
Scientific American Mind has entitled this brief piece “Too Much Emotional Intelligence is a Bad Thing.” Given the content of the article — and common sense — a more accurate title would be “In very particular circumstances, the ability to read