Scientific American Mind (2020-01 & 2020-02)
HAVE YOU EVER TOLD A FRIEND A MADE-UP STORY TO ENTERTAIN that person or spare his or her feelings? Do you know anyone who confes ...
participants and partners reported their own emotions, as well as the emotions they sensed their counterpart was feeling. We use ...
ASHLEY COOPER GETTY IMAGES Cultivating Emotion Regulation and Mental Health Susanne Schweizer is a neuroscientist investigating ...
T he ability to regulate our emotions is essential to reaching our goals and feeling men- tally healthy. Since this is such an i ...
first place, but to do this I needed to understand how emotion regulation develops. How does emotion regulation develop across t ...
OBSERVATIONS A New Way to Think about Mental Illness Instead of looking for “the” cause of schizophrenia, depression and other d ...
on incorrect assumptions. Instead of having one root cause, as general paresis did, mental disor- ders might be caused by many m ...
BEAUTIFUL MINDS Galileo’s Big Mistake How the great experimentalist created the problem of consciousness I f a tree falls in a f ...
radically new philosophical theory of reality. Ac- cording to this theory, the qualities aren’t really out there in the world; i ...
consciousness. If we now want a science of con- sciousness, we need to move to a more expan- sive “post-Galilean” conception of ...
COGNITION Can Empathic Concern Actually Increase Political Polarization? Research suggests that those who display the most conce ...
source of this political conflict is an “empathy gap.” But what if the reality is far more complex, and empathy in certain circu ...
that the student was injured. So much for em- pathic concern! The researchers conclude: “The evidence we present implies that th ...
contact with members of the opposite party. But that’s only a start. Simply reporting that one is high in empathic concern—eithe ...
OPINION A Pair of Crocs to Match the Dress Casting new light on viral illusions I n 2015 the picture of a white-and-gold dress ( ...
er scientists had a true understanding of how the newfound illusions might come about. Pascal Wallisch, a neuroscientist at New ...
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