Word: emotionalizing
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Why are some people shy? It may be that they see the world--or at least faces--differently. Italian researchers recruited 49 shy third- and fourth-graders and asked them to identify emotion in the facial expressions of other children in a video-game format. The shyest kids had difficulty...
Of course, happiness is not a static state. Even the happiest of people--the cheeriest 10%--feel blue at times. And even the bluest have their moments of joy. That has presented a challenge to social scientists trying to measure happiness. That, along with the simple fact that happiness is...
Because of the large influence of our genes, Lykken proposed the idea that each of us has a happiness set point much like our set point for body weight. No matter what happens in our life--good, bad, spectacular, horrific--we tend to return in short order to our set...
Donald Rumsfeld called Al Jazeera ?the media arm of Osama bin Laden? and accused it of faking footage of wounded civilians. Yet the personnel, many of them BBC veterans, see themselves as introducing reportorial objectivity to a region unused to it. And when an Iraqi woman stands in front of...
Bacon’s performance stands out as the most breathtaking in the film. Subdued and roiling, subtle and yet bristling with emotion, Bacon delivers an astonishing portrayal of a man in constant battle with his own degenerate temptations. We sense Walter’s anguish as he follows young...