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Emotions

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

Your face follows rules dictated by your culture.
Cultural 'display rules' govern when and how you express emotions.…
You assume the person next to you is fine.
The 'pluralistic ignorance' effect leads individuals to believe they are the only ones struggling while everyone else …
Your confidence in a decision comes after the act.
Post-decision dissonance reduction causes people to retroactively inflate the value of a choice they just made.…
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…