Sympathy and Simians
Sympathy involves reenacting someone else's mental state, and orangutans show evidence of culture.
Adolescent Slowdown
Kids entering puberty have a harder time processing emotional information.
Bowl Game Brawls
Why do fans of winning teams set fires and destroy property? (only a few, many drunken, not mob mentality)
Food and Mood
Lowering tryptophan causes mood depression, boosting empty calories raises students' test scores, and caffeine is not what raises blood pressure
Drugs and Teenage Brains
Drugs like cocaine affect adolescent brains more than those of young children or adults.
Fear Switch
The brain's medial prefrontal cortex is responsible for unlearning fear.
Health & Happiness
Laughter is the best medicine; It's better to give than receive
Sticky Mittens
Velcro mittens and toys help babies grab objects and develop their brains faster
Male Aggression
The area of the brain that regulates emotions is much larger in men than in women.
Contagious Yawning
Why are yawns contagious? (They signal a change in state, so our brain detects them.)
Emotion Perception
Children who have been abused have difficulty interpreting facial expressions.
Sound Effects
Foley sound effects sound more like the real thing than actual sounds -- Studying why
Monkey Faces
Six-month-old babies can distinguish individual monkey faces, but 9-month-olds can't.
Memory Synchronization
The brain's thalamus is responsible for coordinating different parts of a memory.
Emotional Thinking
The amygdala, an emotional center of the brain, processes thoughts before cognition
Old Memories
Memory loss due to aging can be overcome with a common memorization technique.
Odor Emotions
Stopping odors connected to bad memories from triggering negative feelings