#emotions

#emotions

ChatGPT now has more than 800 million visitors per week, and hundreds of millions are using Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Lambda. These AI systems are powerful and have many valuable uses in business, medicine, education, science, and other fields. They also have scary uses such as military applications, spreading misinformation, and the elimination of jobs.

Art wakes up and stirs emotions. How does this happen? This is the big question that Dr. Katherine Cotter, psychologist at the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, asked in a lecture in the Art Seeking Understanding series. Her new research, published in The Empirical Studies in the Arts, shows how tightly related are thoughts and feelings we have about art when we visit museums.

Forgiveness is often offered as a powerful solution, as an agent to not only help you heal from painful events but also allow you to move forward. The general idea is that holding onto anger can make you bitter and hold you back from healing from harm that someone has done to you. But the problem is that there are several serious complications when we try to use forgiveness as a solution.

Emotions evolved through natural selection as a way to get humans to avoid things that would threaten their survival and approach things that would serve them. Fear prompts us to defend ourselves. Love motivates us to connect, nurture, and cooperate. Anger arises when something threatens our values or boundaries. In essence, emotions condense our judgment about what's happening around us, driving us to make the "right" decision for survival and adaptation.

"The palms were definitely sweating," he recalled. "I'm an emotional guy, so there were a few tears here and there."

We spent a lot of time with the family, the four of us, and about two and a half weeks ago, dropped my daughter Lucie off of college, which was a moment,

Emotions are not just fleeting reactions; they are essential guides for human connection and survival. Whether through the quiet ache of grief or the unexpected flood of tears in moments of joy, our emotional expressions reveal what matters most. Crying, in particular, speaks to this paradox: It can soothe inner tension, signal a need for support, or mark the overwhelming beauty of love and meaning. In this way, both sorrow and joy become invitations, reminders that feeling deeply is not a weakness,

Despite decades of research proving their value at work, emotions remain one of the most undervalued-and misunderstood-resources available to leaders.

We must learn to distinguish between things that are within our control and those that are not. The only thing entirely within our own control is our mind.

Your person with ADHD has spent their waking time absorbing words like lazy, thoughtless, and unreliable into their skin. They call themselves even worse.

This revival season has approached Peggy and Connie primarily as extensions of Hank and Bobby's stories, with their emotions taking a back seat to male characters.

Have you ever seen the onearmed man running a bye to the keeper while 20,000 people leap and writhe and hold their heads and the one-armed man shouts in agony? This scene captures the surreal essence of a cricket match, where intense emotion exists even amidst a seemingly uneventful game.

Hand on heart this is one of the most difficult finals to call in years. There is so little between the teams.

People who are presented with the risk of losing a current position or status are far more likely to engage with the task at hand, motivated by the fear of failure.

The project was designed to train the company's AI model to "recognize and analyze facial movements and expressions, such as how people talk, react to others' conversations, and express themselves in various conditions."

Becoming a grandparent has changed my life.

"He'll cry on the field, he'll cry away from the field. When we were putting it all together, that stuff rose to the top, and we thought it was a great way to showcase not only the player, but the person."

Miss Manners suggests focusing on the upcoming season and fitting in with the team rather than dwelling on past frustrations and missed opportunities.

The celebrations in the directors' box that accompanied Shelbourne's match-winning goal reflected that this was no ordinary game.

Objects are more memorable when people encounter them while feeling positive emotions than while feeling negative ones.

Dépaysement... is a feeling you experience being out of your usual environment, and it refers to both your physical and psychological state.

Early birds could wake up to some unexpected emotions or changes of heart, but it's nothing you can't sort out over a quiet cup of coffee.

Consider ways your husband might react to being asked about this used condom. If there's any risk of violence, let a trusted person know what's about to happen.