emotion

The scientific investigation of the human emotional landscape has undergone a paradigm shift, moving from the reductionist constraints of two-dimensional models to the expansive complexity of multidimensional functional architectures. For much of the late 20th century, the field of affective science was dominated by the circumplex model of affect, which posited that all emotional experiences coul…

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My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex … I met my boyfriend when he was playing Bach in the park. I was taking my usual jog past London zoo and around the Regent’s Park boating lake when I was stopped in my tracks by the most beautiful music. Wafting across the rose garden was an exquisite guitar rendition of Bach’s prelude in E…

The historical progression of affective science has been defined by an enduring ontological friction, often characterized by scholars as a "hundred-year war" between two seemingly irreconcilable paradigms. On one side of this deep-seated schism stand discrete emotion theories, most prominently the "basic emotion" framework championed by researchers such as Paul Ekman and Carroll Izard. This tradi…

Affective science remains divided between discrete emotion theories and psychological constructionism, a century long conflict over whether emotions are biologically fixed categories or emergent conceptual events. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) proposes a structural constructivist alternative: a 10 operator functional ontology organized within a 3×3+1 hub architecture. This paper evaluates whet…

Why is it that after the discovery of an affair, feeling better takes so long? Find out why it is hard to get any traction when healing from infidelity.

Stopping to smell the roses has been shown to be associated with well-being. When both members of a couple have this capacity, the relationship is often set up for success.

There are many factors that affect youth mental health. Data suggests that listening by supportive figures and caring adults can improve mental health and save lives.

Watching comforting movies can help motherless daughters feel less alone on Mother's Day.

Mother's Day can bring a flood of bittersweet emotions to grieving youth. Having support can help them navigate this challenging day.

Free speech isn’t just political—it’s essential to mental health. A free speech culture strengthens cognitive resilience, emotional regulation, and psychological growth.

The centennial debate within affective science has historically been defined by a deep-seated ontological friction between discrete emotion theories and psychological constructionist models. This "100-year war" has polarized the field, pitting those who view emotions as biologically hardwired, universal categories against those who perceive them as emergent, culturally situated conceptual events.…

_Zenodo_. 2026Ordinary language treats love as a polysemous term denoting distinct affective states for partners, children, friends, and parents. This paper formalizes an alternative view: love is a single atomic component, and apparent differences between types of close relationships arise from the additional components composed with it. Using a discrete set-theoretic framework, the paper introd…

This paper proposes a conceptual distinction between two types of synchronization in Human-AI interaction. Structural synchronization (S_st) primarily draws out the AI’s baseline, intended capabilities, while emotional synchronization (S_em) functions as a powerful “boost mechanism” that enables performance exceeding baseline expectations (the “150% state”). Although complete mechanical reproduct…

BackgroundNon-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has become an increasingly prominent mental health problem during adolescence and often co-occurs with depressive symptoms, anxiety, personality-related difficulties, and experiences of childhood trauma, forming a complex psychosocial risk structure. From a risk and protective factor perspective, the present study examined the associations among adverse c…

IntroductionCreative self-beliefs are shaped by stable personality traits and psychological resources. While the links between the creative personality and creative self-beliefs are established, the role of self-compassion, a promoter of subjective well-being, in shaping creative self-beliefs remains a significant theoretical gap. The goal of this study was to describe the relationships among cre…

ObjectiveThis study examined whether caregivers’ picture book reading styles involving moral narratives are associated with the strength of their belief in a just world.MethodsWe investigated the relationship between caregivers’ just-world belief scores and the number of belief-related utterances produced beyond the picture book text. We observed picture book reading sessions involving 24 infants…

BackgroundSuicidal ideation is a key predictor of suicidal behavior, yet less is known about how interpersonal risk factors translate into suicidal ideation through both offline and online self-harm behaviors, and under what conditions these pathways may be buffered. Grounded in the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide, this study examined the parallel mediating roles of non-suicidal sel…