“A raw, emotional thing”

Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: too much of a good thing?

Although positive emotion research has begun to flourish, the extremes of positive emotion remain understudied. The present research used a multimethod approach to examine positive emotional disturbance by comparing participants at high and low risk for episodes of mania, which involves elevations in positive emotionality. Ninety participants were recruited into a high or low mania risk group a...

A Thing of Beauty

A unique feature of birds is their varied and colorful plumage, replete with striking patterns. By coupling a careful mapping of distinct feather features such as pigment color, distribution, and their temporal variationwith a cellular andmolecular analysis of melanocytes, Cheng-Ming Chuong and colleagues provide a roadmap for studying feather patterning in chickens. Notably, feather patterns a...

Feels like the real thing: Imagery is both more realistic and emotional than verbal thought

The production of mental images involves processes that overlap with perception and the extent of this overlap may contribute to reality monitoring errors (i.e., images misremembered as actual events). We hypothesised that mental images would be more confused with having actually seen a pictured object than would alternative representations, such as verbal descriptions. We also investigated whe...

Wonderful Thing

W ith the increased dependence on networks and the near ubiquitous availability of the Internet, there is a new paradigm in place for the proliferation of spyware, viruses, and other malware. In fact, much attention has been given to spyware in popular literature with reports from multiple sources indicating that spyware has perhaps reached 90% home user PCs [2]. There is reason to believe this...

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?