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Emotions

Everything on this site about emotions — each one naming the study behind it.

You might be misreading your fear as attraction.
The misattribution of arousal occurs when your brain misidentifies the source of physiological excitement.…
You are remarkably poor at predicting your future emotions.
The affective forecasting error demonstrates that people consistently overestimate the intensity and duration of their…
Your brain prioritizes threatening information over positive feedback.
A 2001 review demonstrated that negative events have a stronger and longer-lasting impact on the human psyche than pos…