Trying to stop thinking unwanted, often repetitive thoughts is a familiar experience. However, being aware of such attempts implies that the thought has already reached consciousness. Can we preempt an unwanted thought from coming to mind in the first place?
Are things not going well right now? Having a bad day?
When people experience a negative life event, they tend to make causal inferences about the event. These inferred causes affect the way people experience events and respond to them. Over time, whereas some people revisit events and rethink about them, shift towards more adaptive inferences, others may stay stuck in their initial negative inference.
A new research of the PhD candidate Nur Kassem examines bilingual disadvantaged minority members’ emotional experience and expression as shaped by the group relations in a conflict area. The paper "To feel and talk in a language of conflict: distinct emotional experience and expression of bilinguals among disadvantaged minority members" is Nur's first publication and it summarizes Nur's thesis project, under the supervision of Dr. Anat Perry, in collaboration with Dr. Yonat Rum.
While the languages of the world differ in many respects, they share certain commonalties, which can provide insight on our shared cognition. In a new study Prof. Inbal Arnon and Dr. Ori Lavi-Rotbain explore the learnability consequences of one of the striking commonalities between languages.
Why are we attracted to some people and not to others?
A new study finds that when a man and a woman synchronize their physiology and dynamically tune their behavior to one another during a first date, they are romantically and sexually attracted to one another.
A new Paper by PhD candidate Eric Shuman, Dr. Siwar Hasan Aslih and Prof. Eran Halperin, recently published in PNAS highlights the importance of considering multiple measures of protest effectiveness and suggests that mass protest (including when it mixes nonviolence and violence) can be effective at advancing the movement’s goals.
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