Bereavement is useful; full-blown depression is not. William Styron renders an eloquent description of the many dreadful manifestations of the disease, among them self-hatred, a sense of worthlessness...
Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. There
As Marcus Aurelius said millennia ago, 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.
Although you set your goal of getting a B, when your first exam score, worth 30% of your final grade is returned, you have received a D. It is now one week after you have learned about the D grade. Wh...
Add the sounds of silence to the list of emotional risks to health—and close emotional ties to the list of protective factors. Studies done over two decades involving more than thirty-seven thousand p...
A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents...
A reader’s mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.
Some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health
Porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.
Los psicópatas no se preocupen por las posibles consecuencias de sus actos. Y su incapacidad de experimentar el miedo es la que da cuenta de su ausencia de toda empatía –o compasión– hacia el dolor y...
Largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo,...
La raíz de la cólera se asienta en la vertiente beligerante de la respuesta de lucha-o-huida,
Key competencies match a given organization's reality. Each company and each industry has its own emotional ecology, and the most adaptive traits for workers will differ accordingly.
Impulse is the medium of emotion; the seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action. Those who are at the mercy of impulse—who lack self-control—suffer a moral deficiency: The...
Enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.
Each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7
Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life’s vicissitudes bring.
Whatever a student hears in class or reads in a book travels these pathways as he masters yet another iota of understanding. Indeed, everything that happens to us in life, all the details that we will...
Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un buen trabajo, una combinación entre la é...
The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and p...