If It Bleeds, It Leads

If it bleeds, it leads: separating threat from mere negativity.

Most theories of emotion hold that negative stimuli are threatening and aversive. Yet in everyday experiences some negative sights (e.g. car wrecks) attract curiosity, whereas others repel (e.g. a weapon pointed in our face). To examine the diversity in negative stimuli, we employed four classes of visual images (Direct Threat, Indirect Threat, Merely Negative and Neutral) in a set of behaviora...

If it ain't broke ... break it!

“World Communion Sunday started back in 1936, when the world was deeply fragmented by the conflict that would be later known as World War II. World Communion Sunday (originally called World Wide Communion Sunday) has been an observance to help Christians all over the world affirm their unity in Jesus Christ as it is expressed so beautifully at the Lord’s Table. Originating in the Presbyterian C...

If you like it , does it matter if it ' s real ?

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If we have it, do we use it?

If it isn't written down, it wasn't done.