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The Whelk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:50 -0800

Newmoticons: Fresh new emoticons for happy internet people.

"Let people live in your heart"

madamjujujive — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:21:59 -0800

Children Full of Life - grade 4 students in Kanazawa, Japan learn deep life lessons from their incredible teacher and from each other. I strongly recommend this as awesome, but one caveat: keep tissues handy. (5 parts, 40 minutes total, English)

"Jeez Louise, what a sorehead"

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:23:24 -0800

Tim Kreider muses on being judgmental and angry

Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss

badego — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:59:17 -0800

“It would be completely unethical to give the drug to someone else,” he said, “but if you’re in a marriage and want to maintain that relationship, you might take a little booster shot yourself every now and then. Even now it’s not such a far-out possibility that you could use drugs in conjunction with marital therapy.”

Obama elevate my soul

caddis — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:25:12 -0800

How the president-elect tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation." Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California-Berkeley, studies the emotions of uplift, and he has tried everything from showing subjects vistas of the Grand Canyon to reading them poetry—with little success. But just this week one of his postdocs came in with a great idea: Hook up the subjects, play Barack Obama's victory speech, and record as their autonomic nervous systems go into a swoon....It was while looking through the letters of Thomas Jefferson that Haidt first found a description of elevation. Jefferson wrote of the physical sensation that comes from witnessing goodness in others: It is to "dilate [the] breast and elevate [the] sentiments … and privately covenant to copy the fair example." (via Geek Press) Since it's tricky to study the vagus nerve, he and a psychology student conceived of a way to look at it indirectly. The vagus nerve works with oxytocin, the hormone of connection. Since oxytocin is released during breast-feeding, he and the student brought in 42 lactating women and had them watch either an inspiring clip from The Oprah Winfrey Show about a gang member saved from a life of violence by a teacher or an amusing bit from a Jerry Seinfeld routine. About half the Oprah-watching mothers either leaked milk into nursing pads or nursed their babies following the viewing; none of the Seinfeld watchers felt enough breast dilation to wet a pad, and fewer than 15 percent of them nursed. You could say elevation is Oprah's opiate of the masses, so it's fitting that she early on gave Obama her imprimatur.

Neural Correlates of Hate

homunculus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:20 -0800

Brain's 'Hate Circuit' Identified. "People who view pictures of someone they hate display activity in distinct areas of the brain that, together, may be thought of as a 'hate circuit', according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London)."

Hearts of the WorldWideWeb

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:55:55 -0800

"Pulse", a project by Markus Kison, "...is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and transform a physical shapeshifting object...." (QT video) (via) "Ich wachsen" ('I grow'; scroll down, click on image under 'Demo Applet' to run...) and "Touched Echo" are among other projects by Markus Kison, ("Charming Burkha", previously, last link)

Facial Expression Simulator Lets You Play with Emotions

shivohum — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:03:02 -0800

Facial Expression Simulator Apparently it's useful for helping autistics learn facial expressions, among other things. Related.

fear stinks

leibniz — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:50:01 -0800

A mouse has been genetically engineered to no longer fear cats. Surely this is now only a matter of time. There's plenty of research into the capacity to smell fear. And even stuff on the fear of smell. But less on what fear actually smells like. Some researchers working on the link between smell and emotions.

Stress: Women need cuddles, men need kudos

johoney — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:55:54 -0800

Stress-fi: Women need cuddles, men need kudos

Brain

semmi — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:17:51 -0800

Impaired emotional processing affects moral judgements. People with damage to a key emotion-processing region of the brain also make moral decisions based on the greater good of the community, unclouded by concerns over harming an individual.

I second that emotion

frecklefaerie — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:42:27 -0800

"A Console To Make You Wiip: How the Nintendo Wii will get you emotionally invested in video games." Exploring the Wii from the aspect of William James' essay, "What is an emotion?" James contends that all emotions are rooted in one's physical state, e.g. goosebumps when spooked, and blushing while embarassed. Can the overt physicality of playing the Wii make it a more emotional experience?

Bio Mapping: Annotating The Environment With Emotional Data

jack_mo — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:42:20 -0800

The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response, which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal, in conjunction with their geographical location. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited.

I'm in iMood for a melody, I'm in iMood for a melody, I'm in iMoooooood

terrapin — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:27:12 -0800

Using a physiological sensor called the SenseWear by BodyMedia, researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have created the XPod. The XPod "learns" a user's preferences, activities and even emotions, and then selects the most appropriate music to accompany any given situation. The mood ring for the new millennium.

Conversation with Paul Ekman

hortense — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:42:30 -0800

Face to Face: The Science of Reading Faces. Transcript(and video)of a 2004 interview with psychologist Paul Ekman, who is known for his research on facial expression and the development, with associates, of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Includes a few facial expression photos. Part of the "Conversations with History" series at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley .

Mind & Body: Antonio Damasio on Descartes and Spinoza

y2karl — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:25:45 -0800

I Feel, Therefore I Am. Consider the work of Dr. Antonio Damasio, humanist and neuroscientist, who has turned the Mind and Body debate between René Descartes and Benedictus de Spinoza upon its head--or at least the heads of Phineas Gage and one Elliott--via his research and writings such as The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Descartes' Error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. He's influenced writers like Ian McEwan and David Lodge, and via his thoughts on the perception of music, inspired a composition. (More Inside)

semmi — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 21:31:40 -0800

An aesthetics of inadequacy. "Despite Aeschylus's statement, 'All knowledge comes from suffering,' all that came from my suffering was suffering." An interview with Alan Shapiro, the author of Song and Dance, about poetry as an attempt of mourning.

smt — Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:17:46 -0800

Bush's bullhorn speech The most genuine public show of emotion I think I've seen from the president. There has been a lot of criticism of his cue-card reading, but to me this was a refreshing change!

rushmc — Sat, 08 Sep 2001 13:16:29 -0800

Next generation emoticons or another step in tearing down cultural (and man-machine?) walls?

mathowie — Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:29:20 -0800

Eric's Emotions is what you get when you combine a bored college kid and a webcam. He's got a list of emotions on the left pane, hyperlinked to hilarious photos of him illustrating the emotions. My favorites include: "Soylent Green is made out of people," "Fantasizing about Ricky Martin," "New Shoes!," "Han, hold on," and "Mr. Burns' Excellent Face." You can submit new emotion requests, and see his pending requests. [thanks Dan]