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What Makes a Good Life
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? In this short TED talk, Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger tells us what they have found from a 75-year study on adult development.
Posted June 26, 2016 by in Life
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Academic Research- Monkey See, Monkey Do… Monkey Understand?
These slides summarize recent academic research into facial mimicry. Is facial mimicry an automatic, reflexive response, or a tool used to understand others’ emotions? The findings may surprise you.
Posted May 30, 2016 by in Life
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Academic Research- Don’t Like What You See? Give It Time
These slides summarize recent academic research into positivity. Do older people tend toward a positive or negative bias? If you take a couple breaths before answering, would that change your answer? Answers to these and more can be found in the notes.
Posted May 22, 2016 by in Life
Exercise OptimismresearchSlides
Academic Research- Naming Emotions
These slides summarize recent academic research into the power of naming your emotions. Fascinating, powerful research.
Posted May 17, 2016 by in Life
Enhance Emotional LiteracyresearchSlides
Academic Research- Emotion Regulation, Social Anxiety and Your Family
These slides summarize recent academic research into emotion regulation, social anxiety and the family. Do poor emotion regulation techniques cause social anxiety, and if so, would one or both of these be passed on from mother to child? Read the notes for descriptions.
Posted May 3, 2016 by in Family
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Stuck In Traffic
Naming your emotions can tame the intensity of your feelings by bridging the gap between thoughts and feelings. This story highlights the power of naming your emotions and discusses the scientific findings on the topic.
Posted April 25, 2016 by in Life
Enhance Emotional Literacyresearch
Academic Research- The Transitive Property of Emotions
These slides summarize recent academic research into emotional contagion. Specifically, the researchers wanted to see if our emotional states could be passed on not only to someone directly observing our emotional state, but to someone who interacts only with the observer. So can our emotions spread to someone through another person?
Posted April 25, 2016 by in Life
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Academic Research- Emotional Odors
These slides summarize recent academic research into the relationship between stress-related body odor and social evaluations. Are body odors effective transmitters of emotional data?
Posted April 14, 2016 by in Life
Enhance Emotional LiteracyresearchSlides
Academic Research: Social Acceptance and Sharing in Children
These slides summarize recent academic research into middle childhood and sharing behaviors. In particular, the researchers were measuring over a course of 3 years, the relationship between feelings of belonging, sharing, and the children’s ability to sympathize with anonymous others. Descriptions can be found in the notes.
Posted March 22, 2016 by in Life
Increase EmpathyresearchSlides
Academic Research- Inspirational Leadership and Group Identity
This short presentation discusses recent academic research into inspirational leadership and group identity. The researchers look at the brain activity of participants as they listen to identical statements from leaders of in-groups, who they identify with, and out-groups. The results are fascinating. In-depth descriptions can be found in the notes.
Posted March 11, 2016 by in Life
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Academic Research: Forgive and Forget
These slides summarize recent academic research into forgiveness. Specifically, the authors look at the role empathy plays in the deepest, most wholesome type of forgiveness
Posted March 5, 2016 by in Education
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