The summer weather was slow in arriving but is now in full blast. In places like Sacramento and Reno, the temperature has been reaching triple digits. How is all this heat affecting our behavior? Many people would blindly say that tempers rise when hot summer days are prevalent. Try to argue with someone on that…
Read MoreEmotional Distress
People with borderline personality disorders, better known as BPD, show a deficiency in emotion regulation skills. That might not sound like news but imagine getting so frustrated you wanted to smash your computer or scream really loud. If that did not suffice, would you hurt yourself or would you just let out a sigh of…
Read MoreAnalytical Interviewing
When law enforcement use microexpressions as an interviewing/interrogation technique it is called “Analytical Interviewing”. United States police officers, TSA workers, and the FBI have all been using microexpressions to detect deception for quite some time. Science has come to distinguish this from merely reading body language and gestures. Although, those types of techniques are helpful…
Read MoreNegative Emotion Enhances Memory?
Negative emotions actually enhance a person’s memory. Who would have thought that it was all the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elms street movies that we watched after school that would make us the geniuses we are today? Well, it turns out it just might be according to an article in The Behavioral Medicine…
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