Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish y...
In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exerci...
In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation—all signifying a l...
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince
Los indicadores de la autorregulación emocional son, por consiguiente, fáciles de ver: tendencia a reflexionar y a meditar, comodidad ante la ambigüedad y el cambio, y también integridad, es decir, ca...
Los pensamientos obsesivos son la leña que alimenta el fuego de la ira, un fuego que sólo podrá extinguirse contemplando las cosas desde un punto de vista diferente
Motive and emotion share the same Latin root, motere, to move. Emotions are, literally, what move us to pursue our goals; they fuel our motivations, and our motives in turn drive our perceptions and s...
One study of children’s friendships found that three-year-olds say about half their friends are of the opposite sex; for five-year-olds it’s about 20 percent, and by age seven almost no boys or girls...
Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people’s lives—and suspect this is no accidental c...
Secure bases are sources of protection, energy and comfort, allowing us to free our own energy, George Kohlrieser told me. Kohlrieser, a psychologist and professor of leadership at the International I...
Según el estudio de Yale, el ánimo influye en la eficiencia de los trabajadores; si es positivo fomenta la cooperación, la imparcialidad y el rendimiento laboral.
The guiding visionary behind Project Spectrum is Howard Gardner, a psychologist at the Harvard School of Education.7 The time has come, Gardner told me, to broaden our notion of the spectrum of talent...
The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman, a masterly observer of social interaction, called an away...
The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.
The worst period I ever went through at work, a friend confides, was when the company was restructuring and people were being ‘disappeared’ daily, followed by lying memos that they were leaving ‘for p...
Todas las emociones son, en esencia, impulsos que nos llevan a actuar, programas de reacción automática con los que nos ha dotado la evolución.
Un estudiante universitario observa la soledad y el aislamiento que acompañan al hecho de vivir en un mundo virtual de tuits, actualizaciones de perfil y subir fotos de la cena.
Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaj...
We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.
And how toxic emotions put our physical health at as much risk as does chain-smoking, even as emotional balance can help protect our health and well-being.
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