People's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice...
Pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Os sentimentos são essenciais para o pensamento e vice-versa. Mas, quando surgem as paixões, esse equilíbrio se desfaz: é a mente emocional que assume o comando, inundando a mente racional.
Lo que determina la productividad real del colectivo no es su potencial teórico (es decir, su coeficiente intelectual colectivo), sino la forma de coordinar sus esfuerzos.
Las personas muy inteligentes pueden hacer cosas muy estúpidas.
Circuitry. Studies of neurological patients with damaged prefrontal–limbic circuitry confirm that their cognitive capacities may remain intact, while their emotional intelligence abilities are impaire...
Channeling emotions toward a productive end is a master aptitude. Whether it be in controlling impulse and putting off gratification, regulating our moods so they facilitate rather than impede thinkin...
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.
Todo padre sabe que, desde el momento de su nacimiento, un niño es tranquilo y plácido o, en cambio, irritable y difícil.
This lesson comes straight from Paul Ekman’s research on facial expression; as such, it
The neocortex is the seat of thought; it contains the centers that put together and comprehend what the senses perceive. It adds to a feeling what we think about it—and allows us to have feelings abou...
The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.
The longer someone ignores an email before finally responding, the more relative social power that person has. Map these response times across an entire organization and you get a remarkably accurate...
The goal of attunement is not simply continual meshing, with an utter entrainment of every thought and feeling; it also includes giving each other space to be alone as needed. This cycle of connectedn...
The debris that buried Steve saved his life as the plane’s fuselage exploded,
The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power an...
Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness
Según Huxley, el eterno ahora alberga todo lo que necesitamos para vivir una vida plena. Pero la capacidad humana de pensar en cosas que no están presentes en el ahora eterno es un requisito para todo...
Según Damasio, para tomar una buena decisión tenemos que aplicar sentimientos a los pensamientos,
Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day—hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to g...