The Benefits Of Anger

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Kele Ding

27 Mar 2008
Here’s a maxim from the “duh” department: People typically prefer to feel emotions that are pleasant, like excitement, and avoid those that are unpleasant, like anger.
But a new study appearing in the April issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, says this may not always be the case. [...]

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Compassion Meditation Changes The Brain

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Kele Ding

27 Mar 2008
Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples’ mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Published March 26 in the Public Library of Science One, the [...]

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