People tend to have a certain idea of how certain events may affect our emotional lives long-term. We hope that events such as losing a child, be fired from your job, receive an award for our contribution to scientific, to suffer a marriage break-up,… because of its importance, leave us a footprint significant emotional that […]
Taking notes in class: better by hand than with a laptop
How politics divides friends in Facebook
There is a cliché that says that in the family meals should not be talking politics. And is that the policy is able to flourish our side more intolerant, which can harm our relations with the closest people. Family dinners are not the only contexts in which it is not advisable to talk about politics. […]
More on the dark side of emotional intelligence
Three years ago (how time flies), I published in this blog post the review of a study that analyzed the face more negative emotional intelligence. According to the authors, the ability to regulate one’s own emotions may foster the attainment of both good and bad purposes, strengthening the relationship between certain personality traits and behaviors […]
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How to campaign for happiness we end up making unhappy
The pursuit of happiness has become one of the most important issues in our societies, a trend exacerbated by times of economic crisis, social and political that we are suffering. We are surrounded by messages that invite us to seek happiness. And although many of these messages can be honest, what is true is that […]
About whether reading makes us better people
A few months ago, the philosopher Gregory Currie published an interesting article in The Stone, an opinion blog in the New York Times, in which he wondered if it really read “great literature” makes us better people. Currie claimed that despite being a widespread belief, the evidence in favor of this idea is rather poor. […]
The political extremism could rely on the illusion of understanding
Many of the important issues facing our societies require political solutions for complex (for example, climate change or macroeconomic policies). For this reason, it is still strange that there are so many people that hold extreme attitudes of acceptance or rejection of certain policies, given their high degree of complexity. Why occurs then this polarization? […]
The brain reader in the digital age: differences between paper and screen
I share with you a post that I’ve written for the blog brother of the Psychology of information: The Money Cognitive. CGD is a blog dedicated to the cognitive science (the interdisciplinary study of what the mind is, how it works and how it originated). In this case, the reason for sharing the post is […]
