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Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares …
People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, either associative or distinctive thinking will shape your sense of self. You can learn a lot about yourself by looking through the lens of a different worldview. Gish Jen presents that awareness here by comparing …
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.” – Wei Wu Wei Western philosophy typically conceptualizes the self as a stable, controlling entity, comparable to a pilot, while Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism argue that the self is an …
Human as an unconsciously managed race, understanding ourselves could at least protect us from harming us. So, here is our Defense Mechanisms by Sigmund Freud1) Denial 2) Projection 3) Turning against the self 4) Sublimation 5) Regression 6) Rationalization 7) Intellectualization 8) Reaction Formation 9) Displacement 10) Fantasy
