Science news articles about 'emotional feelings'

  • Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction

    ... to a passive baseline) when someone is successfully suppressing emotional feelings. Within the cocaine-user group ... from baseline. The functions within the behavior-monitoring and emotion-monitoring brain regions were interconnected in the healthy ...
  • Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

    ... . Conversely, the healthy comparison participants' ability to feel their heartbeats was unaffected by the anesthetic. "There are two pathways ... , including the awareness of our cardiovascular states, is key in emotion, feeling and the sense of self. The pathways revealed ...
  • I love her but the sex has died

    ... that a year after the relationship started. This condition consistently contributes to the relationship falling apart. My emotional feeling of love stays constant, and the breakup ...
  • Over-the-counter painkiller may help ease emotional slights, UF study finds

    ... of bleed into each other, so that just as you feel emotional distress from physical pain, the social ... less activity in areas of the brain linked with emotional feelings, such as hurt and rejection, he said. "The possibility ...
  • Real March Madness is relying on seedings to determine Final 4

    ... that captures this pattern. As a result of that, in spite of what we emotionally feel about teams or who's going to win, the reality is that the numbers trump all of these things," Jacobson said. "It's more likely to be 1 ...
  • Shop when you're happy: Positive feelings improve consumer decision-making abilities

    ... people, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "There has been considerable debate about how affect (moods, emotions, feelings) influences the quality of people's decisions ...
  • Research raises new questions about animal empathy

    ... ? Why? Panksepp: There is no question that all other animals have emotional feelings. The science is strong for that. And all our strongest basic ... we understand the brain chemistries that control these kinds of emotional feelings in animals, we will better understand ourselves ...
  • Country diary: Wenlock Edge: The stubbornness of snowdrops

    ... by anyone; its bulbs were washed down in a flood many years ago.As well as all that religious symbolism and emotional feelings for the coming spring, snowdrops have a stubborn ...
  • Dissonant music brings out the animal in listeners, say UCLA researchers

    ... 's feelings based on what's going on with the music," Blumstein said. In the control condition, the music was generic and emotionally ... on two factors: how arousing they found the music and whether the emotional feeling in the music was positive (such as happy) or negative ...
  • Humans show empathy for robots, studies show

    ... " to Furby, robots can generate surprisingly humanlike feelings. Watching a robot being abused or cuddled has a similar ... in their daily lives, but little is known about how these lifelike machines influence human emotions.Feeling bad ...

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