emotions

Although the negative emotions associated with romantic love — fear of loss, disappointment and jealousy — are fairly consistent across cultures, the positive feelings can vary.

Boys'chools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music

Boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to conform to the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man"

The author believes that a single-sex school would encourage boys to express their emotions more freely.

force boys to hide their emotions to be "real men"

encourage boys to express their emotions more freely.

Thus, they learn early to hide vulnerable emotions such as love, joy, and sadness because they believe that such feelings are feminine and imply weakness.

It seems that men with traditional views of masculinity are more likely to suppress outward emotions and to fear emotions, supposedly because such feelings may lead to a loss of composure (鎮(zhèn)定)

For instance, Robertson and colleagues found that males who were more traditionally masculine were more emotionally expressive in a structured exercise than when they were simply asked to talk about their emotions.

Males'ifficulty with "tender" emotions has serious consequences

First, suppressed emotions can contribute to stress-related disorders.

Some men believe that if they expressed their emotions openly they might lose composure

According to the author, men who suppress their emotions may develop stress-related disorders.

And together, see how well we do in discerning the babies' emotions.

Feeling both positive and negative emotions is a natural part of being human.

If you are walking past a pizza restaurant at lunchtime, your emotions and feelings probably will be stronger than your knowledge that pizza may not be the best food for your health.

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

Let's say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you've ever experienced.

Now sort your list into two categories: positive emotions and negative emotions.

People who have plenty of positive emotions in their everyday lives tend to be happier, healthier, learn better and get along well with others.

Positive emotions balance out negative ones, but they have other powerful benefits, too.

The adult observers were able to reliably discern an assortment of emotions on the babies faces.

The more we dwell on negative emotions, the more negative we begin to feel.

These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.

We might use the word "negative" to describe more difficult emotions but it doesn't mean those emotions are bad or we shouldn't have them.

As usual, the voice of Peter Sallis is absolutely perfect for the role of Wallace, and Gromit is so beautifully brought to life, he can express a huge range of emotions without saying a word.

To be exact, other people can extend our intelligence and help us understand and adjust our emotions.

We tend to have a better memory for things that excite our senses or appeal to our emotions than for straight facts.

"There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve," says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't

Although sadness also precedes tears, evidence suggests that emotions can flow from muscular responses.

As we grow up, we learn to control our emotions so they are manageable and don't dictate our behaviors, which is in many ways a good thing.

But too often we take this process too far and end up suppressing emotions, especially negative ones.

A more direct finding is that people who scored high for negative emotions like anxiety looked at others for shorter periods of time and reported more comfortable feelings when others did not look directly at them.

Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, suggesting that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around.

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.

Using caregiver assessments and the children's self-observations, she rated each child's overall sympathy level and his or her tendency to feel negative emotions after moral transgressions.