Summary: (Read the research following) Economic inequality has negative impacts on the wealthy as well as the rest of the population. The U.S. has the greatest economic/income inequality among Western nations. Wealthy people are less interested in connecting with...
The paradoxical nature of enjoying nominally negative emotions such as sadness in the context of the arts and fiction has been widely acknowledged by philosophers from Aristotle to Schopenhauer. However, only the last decade has provided empirical evidence of this...
Here’s a great summary in BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarret at the British Psychological Society. Jarret says “As human beings, there’s no avoiding feeling sad – as R.E.M. put it “everybody cries, and everybody hurts sometimes”. We...
By Ray Williams May 29, 2021 Generally speaking, being in a bad mood isn’t just no fun, it also isn’t good for you — people who feel negative emotions like anger, anxiety and sadness a lot of the time tend to have poorer social lives and suffer worse physical...
By Ray Williams May 22, 2021 No matter which way you look at it, rejection hurts. Experiencing rejection from a boss, a friend, or a partner is difficult enough for many adults to handle. But adolescents, who are dealing with the one-two punch of biological and social...
