In your feelings? Turns out, we all experience emotions differently
“You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
But your reaction to a color also depends heavily on where you live, where you were raised, and the context within which you experience that color. In China, red means luck and fortune. In the United States, red represents danger; it means to be alert or to stop. If you walk into a red room as someone from China, you might feel lucky; in the United
... See moreIvy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Like the rest of us, psychologists wonder whether emotions feel the same to people from different cultures around the world. Recent research from the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behavior and Development, at Western Sydney University, summarized in Discover Magazine, tried to figure it out. The researchers looked at how communities with varying... See more